Disclaimer: I don't own the Yu Yu Hakusho characters. I've no idea if anyone has ever written something like this in the Yu Yu Hakusho section or any other section. I CAN'T READ EVERY SINGLE FIC IN FANFICTION.NET, OK?!?!?! *goes running off ranting*

Kurama: Just give her some time, I'm sure she'll be fine...

(P.S.- If you don't know what a kris is, it's a wavey-shaped dagger.)

Broken

By Ryoken

It was a long and dark hallway. She didn't even know where she was, she didn't recognize the place. Keiko kept walking down the narrow pathway and noticed that the walls were made of stone, as though she was in an underground tunnel. It wasn't lighted at all, save for a candle here or there, and the place had the stench of something decomposing.

She turned a corner after what seemed like a mile and saw hundreds of candles burning in a room ahead of her. There were candles on the ground too that lead to the room like runway lights on an airstrip. Keiko hurried on into the room, but before she got there, she heard the voice of a small child.

"Mommy, what are all of these people doing here?" It was the voice of a little girl, and it came from the lighted room. Keiko reached the room and was horrified. All over there were skulls and bones, hundreds of them, painstakingly arranged in an artistic fashion, and had it been done with some material other than human bones, it would have been quite extraordinary. People in black-hooded robes lined the room like the candles did in the hall, and at the end of the row of people was another black-hooded person and the little girl.

Keiko couldn't see her face, for she was looking at her back, but the child looked to be no older than four. She had dirty blonde hair that shone in the candle light and was wearing a dress typical of the 17 or 18 hundreds in Europe. Keiko figured the person beside the little girl was her mother, seeing as she looked up to her.

The mother spoke nary a word (how often do you get to use something like that?!) as she picked up the child and placed her on what Keiko could now see was an altar. There were no skulls or bones on it. As though the child knew what to do, she lied down horizontally on the altar, folded her hands across her stomach, and closed her eyes. Suddenly, the people in the room got down on their knees and began to chant something unintelligible. A man walked through Keiko, as though she didn't exist, surprising her. He too, wore a black-hooded cloak, only the hood didn't cover his face. He was bald, except for a ponytail in the back and half of his face was covered in tattooed runes. He walked up to the altar, nodded to the mother, and the mother walked out, calmly. Then the people bowed their heads as soon as she left.

The man opened a book that had been blocked from view where the mother had once stood. He then took up a kris and waved it slowly over the little girl back and forth.

A dreadful thought came to Keiko's mind. He was going to kill the poor little girl! She just knew it! If this was a dream, Keiko thought, she wanted to wake up immediately. She didn't want to see this poor child be so brutally murdered for what looked like some sort of black ritual. But Keiko couldn't force herself to look away. Something desired her full attention.

The man suddenly took a skillful swipe at the little girl, and only a small amount of blood stained the kris. Keiko took a non-desired look towards the head of the girl, where he had slashed at her, only to see that the girl had a slight cut on her forehead.

The man took a vial in his right hand and scooped up some of the blood from her forehead. Keiko couldn't see what the man was doing now. The people kept chanting, still inaudible as to what they were saying.

Suddenly, Keiko could hear shouts coming from the hall. People screamed horribly and she could hear the thumping of boots running in the halls. She could also hear the clanking of metal, such as chain mail armor would. No one moved from their posts as the clanking and screaming got louder.

Keiko heard a muffled sound from behind her and saw the mother struggling to make her way into the room. She was deathly injured, Keiko could see. The mother tried to speak something, but the word she spoke died as soon as it left her lips, along with the rest of her. Keiko turned around to the man and the child only to see that she missed something for the people began to chant louder, and even though she could hear what they said, she had no idea what it meant. It was as though they spoke in another language. She looked to see that the man was now raising the kris above the girl's body. He spoke more of what seemed to be the same language, and then flung the blade into the heart of the girl, instantly killing her.

The man turned around, and the people stood up, to see people with spears and swords and all sorts of weapons rushing down the hall. But before they got even close to the room, the candles on the runway-like path began to go out, two by two, in pairs. Everything was deathly quiet. Not even the metal clanging of the armor sounded. This kept up until all of the candles leading to the doorway went out. Next, the candles in the room went out at the same time. Keiko could now see nothing. Then the sound of what seemed like stabbing and people dying came, and it lasted for what felt like a half an hour to her.

She woke up screaming.

It took Keiko's mother half an hour to calm her down, but even then, she couldn't get out of her what was wrong. It was only until her mother called Yusuke over, at three in the morning no less, that Keiko even spoke a word.

When Yusuke arrived, Keiko was shaking like mad, clutching her arms, not moving an inch from where she sat in her bed.

Now probably isn't the best time for lame jokes, he thought as her mother explained to him what happened.

"Hey, Keiko, you ok?" He said, not sure of how to start. She looked up at him with a fear in her eyes that surpassed the time when she was being chased down by the townsfolk controlled by the Makai insects. "What's wrong?" He asked in a softer tone, trying to calmer her down.

She immediately went into hysterics and the nightmare was explained.

"Hey, it's ok, Keiko, it was just a bad dream probably caused by something you ate," Yusuke laughed. She didn't think it was very nice of him to laugh at her. It seemed so real...Then again, maybe it was a just a dream after all.

"Thanks again for coming over so late, Yusuke. I don't think I'd be able to get the story out of her for sometime," her mother said.

"Don't mention it," Yusuke yawned.

"You might as well stay here for the night. It's late."

"Er, okay I guess..."

The night had no further incidences as they all slept peacefully.

Koenma sighed. Great. Just great, he thought. ANOTHER case. "Well, I'd better get Botan to send the message along to Yusuke," he thought out loud.

"Send what along, Koenma?" Botan said as she came in suddenly.

"Ah good, now I don't have to send for you. I need you to tell Yusuke to gather up the others and to come to Genkai's temple. I'm afraid it's another case, only it's urgent that he get there as soon as possible, as well as the others. And please, Botan," he said, trying to relax in his chair as she began to leave. "No detours this time." Botan laughed weakly and left. "Bah, I guess I'd better get going as well. This isn't going to be easy..."

Yusuke decided that maybe he'd better to go to school the next day, seeing as Keiko was still in that mood she was in last night. She only spoke to say hi in response to passing schoolmates and she stared at the ground expressionless constantly. Even Yusuke's tauntings weren't affecting her.

"Cheer up, Keiko, it was just a bad dream!" Yusuke said during their break period on the roof. She said nothing. That is until Botan crash landed on Yusuke's head.

"A-Are you two ok?" Keiko laughed.

"Yes, I'm all right," Botan said, standing up off of Yusuke's back.

"Yeah, I think so. Botan, why are you here?"

"Message from Koenma, another case I'm afraid."

"Aww COME ON!!! I just finished healing my injuries from the last fight!" Yusuke yelled towards the sky. He sighed heavily. "So what is it this time? Some pack of beasts from the Spirit World attacking the river of Styx?"

"Actually, I have no idea," Botan said, ignoring Yusuke's earlier comment. "He never told me. Just to assemble you four at Genkai's temple."

"Well that's a surprise," Yusuke said.

"I'll tell Kurama, I'm sure he'll be able to find Hiei, but could you tell Kuwabara for me? Would save me a lot of trouble," Botan asked.

"Sure. Did he say when?"

"ASAP."

"Oh ok then, see you in two weeks, Botan."

"YUSUKE!!!"

"I'm kidding, I'm kidding!! Sheesh," Yusuke said, waving her off. He opened the door to the roof and then turned to Keiko. "You gonna be ok?"

"Yeah!" She said quickly. Then he left to find the idiot. Botan turned on her.

"What was that about?" Botan asked slyly.

"Nothing," Keiko responded.

"You can tell me!"

"I just had a bad dream last night, that's all."

"Oh I see. Well, I've got to catch Kurama. I'll see you later," she said, and zoomed off on her oar.

It was getting late when the four Spirit Detectives arrived at Genkai's temple.

"Ok, so why are we here, Koenma?" Yusuke said with a hint of annoyance.

"Didn't Botan tell you? There's another case for you," he said, walking in the room. He looked perplexed.

"So we've heard. But she didn't give us any details," Kurama said.

"Well, this isn't going to be easy for me to explain, considering the lack of information we have..."

"Just tell us what you know."

"Fine. In the late seventeen to early eighteen hundreds, a demon was reportedly summoned from the darkest depths of Spirit World. The record keeping in those days was awful and quite hectic, so there wasn't very much information as to what or who this demon was. I do know is that she is extremely powerful and tricky. No one really knows what happened to that demon since, she seems to have slipped from any records we might have of her. But now we've had a several reports come in that say people have been seeing black hooded people walking the streets all over the globe. I suspect that these hooded people are responsible for summoning that demon the last time. There's no doubt in my mind that they're about to summon her again, and soon. What I need you four to do is find out where this summon is going to take place and stop it. Who knows what'll happen if she is unleashed in the Human World..." he said. The little prince really had way too much stress on his hands.

"Ok, so lemme get this straight. About two hundred years ago, some powerful demon was summoned from Spirit World to the Human World, she disappeared, then two hundred years later, some guys with black capes show up, and you think that they're going to try to summon her again?" Kuwabara asked.

"That's about it, yes," Koenma said.

"I don't get it."

"Of course you don't, idiot," Hiei said, the first words spoken to anyone all day. "Now how are we supposed to find out where this place is going to be?"

"If you can find someone in a black cloak with a hood over their head, I'm sure you'll be able to pry an answer out of them," Koenma said. He turned to leave.

"Hey wait a second!! What else can you tell us about this demon?! We're kinda in the dark about her powers here!" Yusuke yelled.

"I don't have any information about her at all, Yusuke, otherwise I'd tell you what I know," he replied.

"Nothing?" Yusuke said weakly.

"Nope."

"Greaaaaaaaat..."

"Just please, be careful. I heard that they might use some sort of powerful forbidden black magic," Koenma said.

"Heh, nothing we can't handle!" Kuwabara said idiotically.

"I'm sure." And with that, Koenma left.

Oh boy, that was fun now, wasn't it?

Hiei: Not really.

Oh hush! That's cause you only said three lines! Ok, next chappie may or may not be very exciting, so be forewarned.