Thanks for the reviews! Here's thanx to the people who game me some ideas to work on!

natsumi-chan: I'll have them separate and the killings probably will increase...I'll work something out. Thanks for your suggestions!
Morphius: That's a great idea! I'll do that then. I'll have Yusuke hunt Youko down. Thanks for the help! kitsunejaganshi: I'll have some fighting in it, possible with Hiei against Youko....but I don't know who kurone is so I don't think he...it is a he right?...will be in here. Thanks for your help though!
Volpone: Like I said, you'll just make this fic look worse next to your Foxgloves if I make this a K/B. I can put some K/B moments in it, but I don't think it'll be anything serious. . What got you to read my stories anyway? Just curious. It's great to me that you, THE Volpone is reading my fics, but I just wanted to know how you stumbled upon my drivel.

BEEP BEEP! BEEP BEEP! 'Dammit! What now?!' It was too much for a teenage boy in the earlier stages of his adolescence. He went to bed around one in the morning. His mother had stumbled in around midnight, threw things around for an hour and passed out on the couch. Now, only three hours later, some pocket-sized communicator was making noise like the sun would never rise.

Yusuke groaned, squinting his chocolate brown eyes tightly shut as he groped on his nightstand for the noisy device. His hand had roamed the entire distance of the wooden stand and found nothing. He groaned again. His eyes opened, searching around his cluttered room for possible places a small beeping object could hide... And in this clutter, the hiding places were numerous.

"Why does Mom have to go looking around my things for money? She knows I haven't got a dime to call my own," he muttered. "Now where's that damn alarm clock..." He got up and flicked on his room light. Naturally, this didn't do much help. He kicked aside some piles of newspapers, beer bottles, cigarette packs and clothes. He lifted something that looked like a compact. He opened it up, half expecting makeup to be in it. Unfortunately for it, it was something much worse than girl's makeup to be in his room.

"Yo!" It was the toddler prince of Reikai. "Pacifier breath? What the hell do you want? It's too early for me to be up!" Yusuke screamed at him via the communicator

. Koenma frowned at him. "Aw, I was hoping you'd be happy to see me. After all, I have an important mission for you!"

"Important mission my ass—I'm going back to sleep." He made a move to snap the communicator closed.

"So, you don't like my special hand-picked missions?" Koenma said quickly before he was turned off.

"You got that right."

"So if Keiko was held captive you wouldn't care, right?" Yusuke paused, squinting at the toddler. "Wait...I don't like where this is going..."

Koenma, having found a weak point, continued. "Because you know, if you really don't like these missions, I can make sure that Keiko hears the bad news that you didn't want to save her." He sighed dramatically. "Sorry I woke you up, Yusuke." He began to push a bottom to end the transmission. "

Whoa, hold the phone, Keiko's been kidnapped?" Yusuke demanded.

Koenma his sly smile. "Oh...you're interested now, are you?" He paused for a moment to allow the words to soak into Yusuke's thick skull. "Well? Shall I continue?"

The teen scowled. "Are you going to tell me or not?"

Koenma waved the words away. "I'll tell you, but only if you promise not to fuss to me about every mission." He waited for a nod of acknowledgement and continued. "So like I said, there's a mission for you. We have a pair of demons on our hands that's been killing humans left and right over the course of two months."

Yusuke nodded. "Right. And you want me to beat their asses, right? Tell me their locations and I'll get that done in a jiffy."

"It isn't that simple! These two demons are higher up on the Wanted list." He pushed a button and two pictures showed in the corner of the communicator screen. He pointed to the one in the upper right corner. "See him? This is one of them."

Yusuke squinted at it. "What's with the headband? Are the two in some kind of gang?"

"No. That's to hide the Jagan Eye. It's dangerous in Hiei's hands. How much do you enjoy barbeque?"

"Why?"

"Because, he can only look at you and you'll turn into barbeque! How's that sound?"

"It sounds like a whole lotta fun," came the sarcastic reply. He nodded towards the left picture. "Who's this? He looks like some pretty boy from a pop band."

"Sure. He's got the looks going for him, and of course the ladies swarming over him, but they do that from a distance. He can kill you without you being aware of it."

Yusuke could only grimace. "Perfect. We've got some three-eyed shrimp and a pretty-boy demon that can rip me to shreds, right? Where do I meet these two?"

"Meet them? Are you crazy? You gotta wait for them to come to you! I wouldn't hunt these guys down...look, we can get Botan to spy on them and give us some feedback from their whereabouts."

Yusuke raised an eyebrow. "She'll die quicker than I will!"

"She'll be in her Spirit form, not in human."

Hiei looked about him. Makai looked so barren and empty. He glanced over his shoulder to see how Kurama was reacting. He stiffened when he heard the fox demon chuckle.

"So have you taken me to this place to protect yourself?" Kurama turned to Hiei, his eyes glinting the all-too familiar hint of gold. "I doubt Makai will be adequate, but I admire your trying to keep me from harming you."

"I don't give a damn if I get hurt. It's not like I'll have many people who'll miss me," Hiei replied coldly. "You yourself asked me to take you here to protect her from your attempts to kill her."

"Me?" His laugh was gentle and cold. "When have I cared about a simple human's wish to live?" "Every since your human side had more control over your actions."

Hiei knew this was Youko talking through Suichi. Suichi was only a puppet now, Hiei realized with hate filling his veins. Youko had been a friend of his. Both of them had enjoyed hunting and killing humans. When Youko began to loose control in giving in to the urge to kill, Hiei began to hate the fox demon. Only the weak had no self-control

. Kurama laughed again. His laugh was beginning to get on the fire demon's nerves. "Suichi Minamino barely has enough control of his hormones, much less me. He is a human adolescent. Now...if you haven't taken me to protect yourself, tell me what we are doing here." His boyish features lit up in a sadistic smile. "Have you come to fight me? Is that what it is?" His eyes seemed to turn amber again, but quickly faded away.

"If I have to, then I will. I might not win, but I can run faster than you." Hiei took a deep breath to keep his hate to a controllable level. He lifted his cloak to remove a strange type of vine that he had wrapped around his waist.

Kurama frowned at them. "What're those for?"

"You know what they're for. Until the Kurama I know gets control over you, you're going to have to stay against this tree."

The fox demon cast his gaze on the tree. A smirk teased his lips. "This tree?" he said. Hiei raised an eyebrow.

"Unless you have a specific tree you want to be chained up against..."

"Oh no. This is fine. Here, I'll even give you a hand." He sat down against the tree trunk. He smiled broadly at Hiei's dubious expression towards his cooperation. "What's wrong? Are you going to chain me to this lovely tree or would you like me to go on another killing spree?"

Not knowing what else to do, Hiei wrapped the vine around Kurama's wrists, then wrapped then around the tree trunk. He created a flame to melt the vine against the tree trunk. "I'll be back for you in a few days," he said.

"I'll be waiting!" Kurama replied cheerfully.