Disclaimer: I do not own Yu Yu Hakusho. Yoshihiro Togashi owns it … I'm pretty sure.



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Nightmares and Dreamscapes

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Part One

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"You are to capture the mercenary and bring them back alive," Koenma told them. "This is a very important mission."

"Why is that?" Yuskue asked the toddler.

"This 'mercenary' isn't like your average mercenary. This one's more like a hunter."

"That's the only reason we're bringing him in?" Kuwabara asked.

"No, you dimwit. Now shut up and let me finish telling you!" the young ruler yelled.

"Stupid toddler," Kuwabara mumbled under his breath, Koenma chose to ignore him.

"As I was saying, we don't know if this mercenary is male or female, ningen or youkai. We have nothing to go by except that they intend to kill someone of high importance in the Spirit world. Though, we don't know whom exactly. Early yesterday, a note came in giving warning to the 'higher ups' at Spirit world."

"This is really starting to get on my nerves," Yuskue said annoyed. "You're not telling us anything. All you keep saying is 'we don't know'. Do you know anything, like maybe where we find this person, or what they call them self? Why are they doing this?"

"In the note, was a warning and to send the spirit detectives." Koenma said. "Who ever it was, seemed very fond of Hiei and Kurama for some reason." The said two, looked up in surprise.

"May we look at the letter?" the kitsune asked.

"Here," Koenma gave him the letter.

It read:

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My dear Koenma, how are things going in the Spirit world? Good? That's great, I would just like to warn you higher ups that I will kill one of you. I know you're thinking, 'who is this crazy loon?', but that's ok. All I want is to fight the spirit detectives, especially the beautiful Hiei and Kurama, Ooo I love them. Anyway, I'll be waiting on the green hill in the biggest forest.

Love,

Your favorite mercenary hunter

xoxoxo

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As Kurama read the letter out loud, everyone sweat dropped and looked at the two youkai. Kurama emotionlessly folded the letter back up and handed it to Koenma.

"Well at least we know that this person is completely and utterly insane," Kuwabara said for all of them.

"Now you see why we have to capture this 'mercenary'," Koenma said.

"Yea, sure," Yuskue was still surprised. He didn't know weather to fall on the flour and laugh, or be tremendously shocked.

"Looks like our two youkai have a secret admirer," Kuwabara started laughing uncontrollably. That is, until Hiei hit him with the sheath of his sword. In turn, knocking the ningen unconscious.

"Damn Idiot," the fire youkai said and walked away. Kurama stepped over Idiot … um Kuwabara.

"Serves him right," Yuskue sighed and slung him over his shoulder.

"Yuskue," Koenma said before he left. The spirit detective turned to look at him. "Be careful, we don't know what this youkai is capable of," the young ruler finished.

"Sure thing," Yuskue said with his trademark smile before following his comrades.

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They were all walking through the forest. No one talked, they were all thinking about the odd new mission Koenma assigned them. Though mostly about the note. Whoever had wrote it must have really been out of their mind.

"All right, I'm sick of this, would someone start talking?!" Kuwabara said.

"How about you shut the hell up?!" Hiei said, not looking at the ningen.

"What the hell did you say, Shrimp?!" Kuwabara argued, he really didn't care what it was about, as long as they were talking, no matter what form it was in.

"What he means," Kurama, the peace keeper between the two, said glaring at Hiei, before the fire youkai could say anything, "is that this is no time to start conversation," the kitsune said.

"Hin."

"Whatever." Kuwabara folded his arms against his chest.

"If you guys would just stop babbling, you would have noticed that we're here," Yuskue said not looking away from the figure in front of them.

"How nice of you to come," the figure beamed. What they saw in front of them was a very feminine looking youkai. His hair was long and black, his lips was a crimson red. He had black eye makeup around his scarlet eyes. Fingerless gloves came to his wrist. A red and black cloak was around his shoulders and a katana was on his left hip.

"What an honor," Yuskue said dryly. The youkai jumped in front of Hiei and Kurama.

"I'm Koe," he said looking at the two youkai. "It's great to finally meet you," he said smirking, and started walking to Kurama. He didn't get very far however, there was cold metal lightly pressed against his neck. Everyone sweatdropped, all except Hiei and Koe, who was still insanely smirking. "My, aren't we a little protective."

"We came here to fight," Hiei said with an emotionless façade. In truth, however, the fire youkai felt very uneasy. As if something bad was going to happen.

"So, then fighting we shall do," he said, and within seconds, Koe had his own katana out. Hiei attacked, which Koe effortlessly blocked. He attacked, and Hiei easily dodged. However, Hiei didn't see Koe's fist until he was punched in the gut. The fire youkai doubled over in pain and coughed up blood. Koe just smirked and looked at him.

"SPIRIT GUN!" everyone heard as the unexpected blue energy lunged it self at the youkai and hit him in the back of the neck.

"Damn ningen!" they finaly saw the youkai frown.

"What?" Yuskue smirked and mockingly shrugged. "Couldn't let Hiei have all the fun, now could I?" The spirit detective took a fighting stance. Koe stood with his katana in front of him and smirking again.

"My intended targets are not you, detective," he looked at the two youkai. "However, if I must go through you, then so be it," he said and started to charge.

"SHOT GUN!" Yuskue yelled as flashes of light came out of his hand. Though, very little damage that did. The youkai just blocked them all with his katana.

"You'll have to do better that that," Koe smirked and attacked him. Yuskue dogged but it wasn't fast enough, he was slashed across his chest. Taking the opportunity of the spirit detective being down, he charged after him.

"SPIRIT SWORD!" Kuwabara yelled behind him and slashed him in the back, doing little damage.

"You two are a very unwelcome nuisance," Koe all but yelled at the two ningen. "A nuisance that must be eliminated," he smirked.

"ROSE WHIP," Kurama finaly took a turn. Koe jumped over the whip, expecting it. He then turned around to look at the kitsune.

"Kurama," he was about to say more, but then Kuwabara came after him with his spirit sword. As usual, it was easily blocked.

"Now, this isn't working too well," he said dogging another attack from Hiei. "I guess I'll have to go to more drastic measures to get what I want," he smirked. He stopped when the four surrounded him. Lifting his arms in the air and chanting a spell, a sudden white light surrounded them. When the light died down, the four just stood with unreadable expressions and unaware of what was going on around them.

"This ought to be fun," Koe said and sat in the middle of them. "Watching their faces as they live their own nightmares, only, they feel them as well…"

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Author's Note:

My first YYH fic, I'm so happy, though I have no idea how good it is. I'm sorry if anyone seems OOC (I hate when characters are like that). This fic is somewhat, Hiei/Kurama … ish, though nothing drastic, I may not even have to change the rating here. This is going to be very short fic, maybe two or even three chapters (parts) at the most. I originally wanted this to be a long One Shot, but I decided against it, for my own reasons. Anyway, the next part should be out soon, I'm hoping. I have all the information, it's just not written down, yet. This fic is going to have a sad, angst ending, so I hope you all brought you tissues ;}. Read/review, and let me know what you think about this short fic. Maybe you people could encourage me to write a full length YYH fic (after TOB is done, or close to it, of course).

~VGT~