Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Yu Hakusho or any of its characters. I wish I were just a little bit better at thinking of disclaimers.

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Chapter 4

Departure

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Echo got to school on Monday and noticed something: Everyone was acting normal again!!!!

"Echo! Did you hear? Mr. Droleci resigned! Now that I think about it, I can't really remember what he was like. Was he nice?" said Jackie at lunch.

"Most people seemed to think so," said Echo.

"That question made you sound stupid," said Angela, " So what has been happening on Inuyasha?"

Echo laughed and filled them in about what had happened on the show. She still hadn't told anyone about Mr. Droleci or the strange warning.

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"Yusuke! Kurama! Kuwabara! I have a new mission for you. Hiei already knows what you are going to do tonight and that is why he is back in the corner over there," said Koenma.

"Yeah right! Hiei is back in the corner because he doesn't want to go on this mission. It must involve humans and no fighting," said Yusuke.

"Actually, you are right. You are going to retrieve a girl. Her name is Echo Serenson. Hiei can give you the details. You will go to her house and bring her here. She will have MANY questions that will confuse you very much. Don't answer her. Tell her I will answer all of her questions."

"but.." protested Kuwabara as they were forced to leave the room to fetch Echo. They were in for some confusion.

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Echo got home from school and said good-bye to her parents as they walked out the door.

"Yes! Just in time to watch Yu-Yu Hakusho!"

She watched her favorite show and during a commercial break, the doorbell rang.

"Oooh! Whoever it is is lucky that it is a commercial."

Echo answered the door and saw the main characters from the show she was watching standing at her door.

"Um.. I must have fallen asleep on the couch.. Oh well. I will just play along with my dream. It looks like it is going to get interesting. So hi! Why are you here?" said Echo.

"Uh... Yusuke? Is she crazy?" whispered Kuwabara.

"Listen Echo or whatever your name is. Koenma said that he would answer all of your questions when we got you to Spirit World," said Yusuke as he grabbed her arm and tried to pull her outside. She felt his arm. She wasn't dreaming.

Echo looked at the group of fighters standing in front of her. She looked over at Hiei.

"It was you who was following me wasn't it! You told me that you were coming!"

Hiei just gave her a look that plainly said "duh". Kurama looked over at Hiei. He sensed some strange feeling he had never sensed from Hiei before. Does Hiei.No of course not. He would never. Not a human.

Echo walked inside to turn off the television.

"Oh can we please wait until this show is over? You guys might remember some of this stuff in it. Unless it is just made up that is." Meanwhile, Echo was sitting there thinking how good Hiei looked.

The show came back on and Kurama, Kuwabara, Yusuke, and Hiei just stared.

"Hey! I remember that!" said Kuwabara.

"Koenma must have sent her this so she could learn about Spirit World," said Kurama thoughtfully.

"Wha.."

"We better get going. I'm supposed to go out with Keiko later," said Yusuke.

Echo went, but only because she was still too shocked to think about anything else besides that her dreams of adventure were going to become reality.