Chapter 1: The Mission

"Yusuke! GET UP!!!" Keiko yelled from downstairs. She was infuriated that he had slept in on the day that he'd had a meeting with the rest of the gang at Kuwabara's house. Keiko marched upstairs, walked into his room and gave him one of her famous whacks over the head.

"Owww. Hey, what did you do that for? It's to early." Yusuke said, his hands clamped over his head.

"It's 11:05!" Keiko yelled.

"I know, it's early!" Yusuke yelled back.

Keiko sighed.

"Just get dressed, Koenma wants to see you and every one else."

Keiko left the room. Yusuke got up and put on his green school uniform. He took about 5 seconds for that. Then he spent another 10 minutes greasing back his hair. Then he walked out of his bedroom as though nothing happened. He and Keiko both walked downstairs where Kuwabara was waiting in the doorway chuckling.

Yusuke gave him a death look and retorted "Oh shut up. You're no better with Yukina."

"Well at least my girlfriend doesn't whack me in the head everyday."

Keiko blushed a light red.

"Alright you two," Kuwabara said "We gotta get going. Let's hope that they guys don't think that we took to long."

The three of them left the house and walked down the road to Kuwabara's house.

They opened the door and saw that everybody was waiting for them.

"Hi guys!" Keiko said perkily.

"Hello." Kurama said in a cheery voice.

"Hn." was Hiei's reply.

Koenma appeared from a dark hallway on the other side of the room. "Well now that everybody's here, we can get down to business." He announced "Last night, something kidnapped two very power powerful wolf demons. I have heard that they are extremely powerful. You are to-"

"Yeah we know the drill by now binky breath, we have to save them and then Ningenkai." Yusuke interrupted.

"Of course, you should know that the demons you're rescuing are in control over all the elements in the Human world, Spirit world, and Demon world." Here he paused and removed two slips of paper from his robes. "These are the pictures of the two of them. I should warn you, they maybe docile but once on the offensive they can really fight! And I should warn you their scents are very hard to pick up so do keep your eyes peeled. Oh, and one more thing, please don't get on their nerves because the last person who did, was dead in less than a minute."

"Don't worry about it. We can handle a couple of girls, I hope." Kuwabara mumbled, biting his nails. Every one else looked on blankly.

"You can search in different parts of the Spirit World." Koenma said, "We don't know where they were kidnapped. And to make matters worse, we don't know whom demon that kidnapped them is either, so that's going to make things more difficult. Just one last thing, they don't know who you are, so you're going to have to explain to them exactly how you know them too. Good luck, trust me, your gonna need it." Koenma said coldly.

The gang left the room and went into Kuwabara's back yard to find a portal that led to Spirit World.

When they came out the other side, they were on a beach with the blue-green ocean to their left and the purple-silver mountains in the distance to the right. In between them, there was forest that seemed to be stretched out for about 5 miles.

"So where should we begin?" Yusuke questioned. There was a moment of silence, then Kurama spoke up.

"We all split up." He said "Hiei, you cover the mountains, Yusuke, you search the beach here. Kuwabara, you search the right side of the forest and I'll search the left side. Sound good?"

"Whatever." Yusuke said halfheartedly. He wasn't up to doing work at the moment but he had no other choice. Everybody went off in different directions to begin their search.

Hiei had no trouble scanning the mountains. Of course there were seven of them. But he found nothing significant. Kurama brisk walked taking a good look at his surroundings. He saw nothing that would have been any help. Kuwabara was tired, but had only walked a total of 20 minutes. He also found nothing. Yusuke didn't search; he was just too lazy. So he perched himself on top of a cliff overlooking the edge of the forest and ocean. He looked down; it was a 30-yard drop to the surface of the water. He scooted back making sure that he didn't fall.

By the time the search was over, it was sun down.

"So did anybody find anything?" Kuwabara asked, gasping for breath.

"Nothing." Kurama answered.

"Hn." Hiei said looking away towards the mountains.

"Nope." Yusuke replied with a yawn.

"We might as well camp here. We'll call Koenma in the morning to tell him we need to be sent to a different location." Kurama suggested. No one had any objections.

Later that night, when every one had fallen asleep, Hiei put out the fire and went to nap. He rested on a sturdy branch in the middle of a tree. Closing his eyes slowly he let the blanket of slumber come over him. But even in his sleep he sensed that they had missed something, though he couldn't figure out quite what it was. He'd have to tell the others in the morning.

The next morning everybody was up. Everybody except Yusuke and Kuwabara, that is. Kurama tried to wake them up.

"Guys, get up." Kurama said in a calm voice leaning over them.

Yusuke blinked. There, two crimson red eyes stared at him. He jumped back in surprise and yelled at the demon in front of him. "DON'T DO THAT!"

"Hn. Don't try and get revenge, it won't work."

"Why you little..." Then, Kuwabara interrupted Yusuke.

"Hey guys, stop fighting. We have to find the two hot girls today." Kuwabara said drooling. Hiei and Yusuke didn't say anything thinking that if they did they may trigger more of his stupidity. Kuwabara had just woke up and already he was off to a bad start.

Mean while at Genkai's temple:

"I hope they're okay." Yukina was staring out the window thinking of Hiei and Kuwabara.

"Don't worry, if anything turns up, they can handle it." Boton said perkily. She gave a sigh and walked out of the den (A/N: the den is the living room).

"I wouldn't be surprised if my brother is dead right now. Considering his IQ." Shizuru said coldly. Of course she didn't really care. Shizuru didn't really care for her brother that much. But if she did, she did nothing to show it.

"I do hope that they've made progress." Boton said agreeing with Shizuru.

"I have a feeling that we missed something yesterday." Hiei said once Kuwabara had finished his speech. "We should scan over where we were and see if we missed anything; and before you ask, it's because my senses are never wrong." He said coldly.

The rest of them agreed and ran off to their areas, quickly searching one last time. Though this time they looked at everything in greater detail.

Hiei was at the peek of the mountain when suddenly; he caught the scent of blood. He knew it wasn't Kurama's, Kuwabara's, or Yusuke's. Using the Jagan Eye told everybody. (A/N: The Jagan Eye is a third eye on his forehead and it is used to see into people's minds and use telepathy)