Beads of sweat poured down her face and her head whipped from side to side. Groaning and yelling, Rogue kicked the off the blankets and her body shook. Tabitha had run down to the kitchen for a bowl of cold water while Wanda did what she could to restrain the struggling mutant.

                "Rogue! Stop it! Rogue it's okay! It's just in your head, wake up!" Wanda shouted.

                "No! Please no! Let meh out! Ah don't belong here! Get meh out!" she shouted, tears running down her face.

                Down in the kitchen, Tabitha searched as fast as could through the drawers and shelves for a bowl. She could hear Rogue yelling and screaming and Wanda's failing attempts to get her to wake up. Amara had told her that this had happened once before while she was away. All of the people she had ever absorbed had tried to take control of her body and that alone was difficult battle. Afterward, Rogue had been in a coma for hours. Of course, they had never thought that just one touch would trigger that all over again.

                Grabbing a bowl from one of the shelves below, she turned on the faucet and let the freezing water pour into it. Hearing another agonized scream from upstairs, this was definitely one of those times she was glad they didn't have any neighbors.

***

                A stunned silence had fallen over the group of humans and demons. They wondered what had happened to Rogue and the demon woman. They had seen bright flashes of light, then the demon flew off, obviously weakened by whatever power Rogue had. Then Rogue fell to her knees and Tabitha and Wanda (Yusuke had identified them) helped her to her feet and quickly left.

                "That was interesting," Kurama said clearing his throat.

                "Hm. Yusuke, how well do you know those girls?" Koenma asked turning away.

                "Not very well, they just transferred into our school today. Why?"

                "Well…I may be asking a lot from you, but do you think you could talk them into helping you on this next assignment?"

                "Are you crazy?!" Kuwabara shouted. "They just got here and now you wanna drag them into this?"

                "Their skills may be of use to us! And the faster we get that demon back, the safer the living world will be" Koenma replied calmly, trying to reason with him.

                "Are you saying that we don't have a choice?!"

                "It's good to know that you understand the magnitude of importance of this assignment."

                "You can't be serious," Hiei muttered from his secluded corner. "It's bad enough that you make us baby sit Kuwabara and Yusuke but I refuse to baby sit a group of girls."

                "If we here at Spirit World didn't know about the existence of mutants, chances are your new adversary doesn't know either," Turning to face the small group, Koenma continued. "I want all of you to pay your new teammates a visit."

                Walking back to the new girls' home, Kurama and Hiei following behind, Yusuke couldn't help but feel a little guilty about what was going on. Sure, this would be a great chance to get to know the third race better, but given the circumstances, he wished that there were a better way. Besides, to him, this almost sounded as if they were using them solely for their powers. And judging by the way Wanda and Rogue kept people at arms length, they had seen enough pain to last them a lifetime.

***

                Downstairs in the living room, Tabitha typed on the laptop that Rogue had brought with them. Even though they just could've called the mansion, she wasn't so sure about the time difference between them so that wasn't such a great idea. At least the house had a phone line so they could e-mail Xavier.

                Eventually, just seconds after hitting the send button, the sound of the doorbell rang through her ears. Slowing lifting herself from the plush couch, she muttered quietly to herself. It was late and Wanda was having trouble keeping Rogue under control while she stayed in her fitful sleep. Jeez, it was really starting to tick her off. People really seemed to have a knack for coming over at the most inconvient times.

                "What?!" she shouted slamming the door open. Pausing in embarrassment, Tabitha looked over the faces that she didn't recognize. One of them had red hair and emerald green eyes dressed in a red school uniform. The other was kinda short, and black hair was spiked and the only bit of clothing that wasn't black was the turtleneck. She was tempted to laugh at that…they were like the counter parts to Rogue and Wanda.

                "Uh…is there a problem Urameshi? I mean this really isn't a good time for you to be over here and if this is about the school work then you're definitely at the wrong house," she said calmly.

                "Tabitha, we need to talk," Yusuke replied.

                "Talk? Is that all? Well then we'll talk at lunch tomorrow!"

                "No, Tabitha, you don't get it, see, we know about –"

                "AAAAAHHHH!" The scream echoed through the entire house. Yusuke tried to see what was going on behind Tabitha but she kept stepping in the direction that he tried to look in.

                "Tabitha! Get up here!" Wanda shouted from upstairs.

                "All right! Urameshi please, whatever this is, can it wait?"

                "No, I don't think it can."

                "Well…just get in here and sit down in the living room."

***

                "Meibatsu, welcome back," Yukio said smugly, "did you enjoy your little trip?"

                "Be silent," she hissed in reply. "Were you the one who sent those three demons after me? As a test to be sure I was strong enough?"

                "I can assure you that I had no part in that."

                "Humph…right."  

***

                Tabitha had rushed into the room to see that Rogue had finally snapped out of it. Jeez, with the way Wanda had yelled, she was sure that Rogue had kicked the bucket or something. And that would've sucked since they would have had a lot of explaining to do as to why their mansion reeked of dead flesh. Then when the three months were over and they went back home, they would have to run like hell from the fury of the over protective Wolverine. Ugh, it sent shivers down their spines to think about that.

                After quickly changing out of her Bayville Sirens uniform and back into her usual cloths, Rogue wobbled downstairs to the living room where everyone sat, Wanda holding out a cup of herbal tea.

                There was an extremely uneasy silence, as it was obvious that Yusuke, Kuwabara, and the others Wanda and Rogue didn't recognize, did recognize the cuts on her arms and face. There was then a short exchange of names and then things went from about square one to square ten.

                "So, this Koenma person," Wanda said. "He wants us to help you, and you're here to sort of recruit us?"

                "In a way I suppose, it depends on how you look at it," Kurama replied coolly. Wanda flushed a little as she did her best not to stare. But good lord, the boy was suave! She loved that in a man. "I apologize if this seems like we're not giving you a choice because we are. You don't have to help us if you don't want to."

                "The demon we fought a little while ago, Ah got a dose of memories, ya'll can use the information if ya want," Rogue said looking at the group seriously. "Her name is Meibatsu, or at least that's what Yukio Kuromori calls her. Yukio was the guy who freed her from prison, and apparently she wants revenge against one o' ya."

                "Who?" Yusuke asked.

                "How should Ah know? Her memories don't go back that far. Sorry sugah."

                "You said that you now have her memories, how is this possible?" Kurama said. Pulling off one of her gloves, Rogue held out her hand to Hiei and he looked at her questioningly.

                "If Ah were to touch ya right now, Ah would absorb your life force, your memories, and your power with the added bonus of puttin' ya into a coma."

                "Interesting," Hiei replied intrigued. But looking up at her, he could see how sad she was. For whatever reason, he felt a bit moved. He had never been moved by anyone else's sadness and pain. It was an odd sensation. But returning to reality, he pushed the thought aside and began to grow impatient and bored. This was getting them nowhere.  

                "Well what are we just sitting here for?" Tabitha said standing, "Let's go! You wanted help from the Sirens, you got help from the Sirens."

                "Ya got code names for each other?" Rogue asked.

                "No why?"

                "We usually use code names. Since the discovery of mutants, it's safer that way," explained Wanda. "If were didn't use them then the government could easily track us down and that would be very dangerous."

                "Alright, we'll use them" Hiei grumbled impatiently. "Just tell us what they are."

                "Boom-Boom"

                "Scarlet Witch"

                "Rogue"

                "All right then, on to spirit world!" Yusuke said confidently.

Author's Note: Hey there everyone, are you glad that I've finally gotten to the action of the story? I hope so because I was beginning to worry that I would never get to it.