Chibi Ochita: I do not own any of the Yuyu hakusho cast. But I wish I owned Hiei...hee hee hee.

Hiei: Freak.

Ochita: your one to talk, three eyes.

Hiei: Hn-

An invitation to death

Botan looked in on the scene. She saw Hiei on a girl, holding her wrists, practically straddling her waist, his hand on the edge of her black shirt which was riding up to her ribcage. She looked at the girls flushed face and her lips were parted, panting harshly. Hiei's breath wasn't that rapid but it was slowing down. Botan blinked then gave her famous cat face.

"Am I interrupting something?" She asked in her cat position, her hand shaped like a paw.

Yusuke burst out laughing. And Rein turned to Botan.

"I'm not even going to dignify that statement with a rude comment." She snorted.

Yusuke kept laughing and it was really starting to get on Hiei's last nerve. His head whipped up to Botan and he gave her a glare that would make Enma-sama duck for cover. Botan's hair stood on end and she stood still as if she were trying to blend into the wall.

"Ha ha ha..." Botan laughed nervously as she realized that her camellian act wasn't working.

"Why are you here?" Hiei asked in the most disrespectful way.

Botan would've gotten mad had it been anyone else talking to her in that tone but seeing as it was his Majesty of Grumpiness she wasn't about to yell at him. She sighed and said in a tone full of remorse, "I'm sorry to inform you but you need to participate in another tournament."

"Greeeeeaaaat. Just what I need to jump start my blood. Shitty demons attacking me with less the C level spirit energy." Yusuke muttered.

Botan looked down sadly at her feet and mumbled something. Yusuke looked at her and saw that her powder blue bangs were covering her purple-pink eyes in such a way that he knew she was trying to hide her face.

"Oi, Botan, what's with the face?" Yusuke asked almost disturbed by the way she looked.

"I never said you were participating in The Dark Tournament." Botan said in the quietest most quavering voice both Yusuke and Hiei had ever heard.

Rein looked at Botan and let out a bark of laughter. Botan's head shot up and she glared icily at the girl. She looked like she was in a great amount of pain and, judging by the way she stared angrily at Rein, the red haired girl was only rubbing salt in the wound. Rein stared up at Botan with a cruel smirk on her face and said in her steely voice, "You're kidding me right? I've only participated in that tournament once due to the fact that there are more people then the population of China that would love to stab me in the back. I doubt that you'll be stupid enough to send these yarou's to their demise. Then again you are well associated with them so you can't be all that smart yourself now can you?"

Yusuke looked worried and turned towards Botan. His brown eyes bore into her pink ones as if he were trying to extract information from her mind. Botan broke eye contact with them and she then stared at Rein.

"Who exactly are you?" Botan asked in a small voice.

"Kayo Rein." Rein said flatly.

"You're eyes are...OH SHIT! HIEI GET AWAY FROM HER NOW!" Botan yelled.

Rein winced at the comment but the man on top of her wouldn't budge. She squirmed slightly which only irritated the slash down her back causing her to bleed all over the wood flooring. She looked at the hand that was still holding onto the corner of her shirt. He had managed to grab that and pull her to the ground causing their earlier wrestling match...if you could call it that. His hand was warm as his palm wrested on her stomach and she started to wish he would move it...not that it made her feel awkward it was just that...well...it kind'a did

"Why?" Hiei asked, his eyes narrowing at Botan.

"Hiei-san just listen to me once this time, onegai."

"Hn-" was all the short man said and stayed right where he was positioned.

"Why Botan? Hiei seems to have it under control." Yusuke joked.

"Watch your mouth detective or you might find yourself having to watch you back." Hiei snapped.

"Nocturne's irises aren't white but you can always tell a nocturne by the fact that the whites of their eyes are pitch-black." Botan snapped.

"Yeah we know. She's half dark angel half light angel." Yusuke said casually.

Rein began to laugh ironically at the comment. Hiei, all though he wouldn't admit it to himself, liked the sound of her usually steely voice because of its morbid tone but this time it held something he almost shuddered at. He didn't though; his pride of course wouldn't allow him to do something so childish in his opinion.

"No Yusuke you don't get it. She's 100 dark and 100 light." Botan said in a shaky voice.

"What? So what? What does that even matter?" Yusuke squawked at the ferry girl.

"It matters because I'm at that certain age where my power consumes me and I spontaneously combust. If that happened everything living and inanimate within a 100 mile radius would be incinerated including you and me." She laughed. Then she stared at Botan and smiled wickedly, "You must know a lot about the subject if you work for Enma. Tell me are you going to take me to him so he can lock me up for the remainder of my existence just like he did with all the other little angels that couldn't help the fact that their parents weren't of the same race?"

Hiei's eyes widened and so did Yusuke's. They both turned to Botan who was sobbing uncontrollably. She fell to her knees and whispered, "Gomen nasai, gomen nasai, gomen nasai."

"Looks like he killed off to many of us Twilights and so now it's all come back to bite him in the ass. Now instead of sending off the ever expendable beings of my race, he's choosing to use humans and demons and anything in between." Rein laughed.

"Stop it! Stop it now!" Botan shouted at Rein, "How can you even talk about something like that so flippantly? How can you laugh at the horrors of what has to be done?"

"What has to be done? No, what's done is done and because your master can't do anything about it he's choosing to send his own employees to their death. Another thing that he can't stand is that my enemy will win this contest of idiocy, will be granted his wish, and massacre ever dark angel in his path upsetting the natural balance of the universe!" Rein snapped before continuing her angry tirade, "He sent everyone to their grave without so much as a second thought. We were too dangerous and couldn't live in heaven or hell so what did he do? He let us die, didn't give us a chance to live. We fought long and hard against him but in the end we couldn't do a thing because we didn't have access to every supply we needed to live!"

Botan had tears in her eyes as well as ones freely falling down her cheeks. Her shoulders sagged and she looked like she wanted to fall through the floor. She had tried to keep her emotions inside when she had been given the news, she tried to be tough about it because she knew the boys would accept the challenge as a game instead of what it really was. She'd kept it inside, her tears and sorrow but now with the horrible Twilight girl lying on the ground beneath one very irritated jaganshi, spilling terrible memories that Botan had wanted to forget for the last 78 years, she couldn't manage to keep on her normal cheerful, genki, expression.

"I don't want to send them to the Death Tournament. I really wish I didn't have to even give you this news. If the Twilights are all gone there's no one to fight against the other...overly ambitious Diurnes."

"Death tournament?" Yusuke asked.

"Hn-" Hiei snorted in his usual distasteful way.

"He's never even heard of it." Rein cackled.

"Well, why don't you tell us onna?" Hiei growled down at Rein, purposefully setting more of his weight on top of the small teenager so she'd get the point. This made Rein feel extremely awkward. No, he wasn't hurting her...in fact his warm form almost felt welcoming to her's. She squirmed a bit, not having felt this way before and really not liking it. Her number one rule was to listen to her head and not her emotions and usually it worked out perfectly fine but right now this emotion seemed to have a life of its own and it was slowly worming its way under her skin. Feeling the need to kill something but not being able to she settled for causing someone else emotional pain.

"I'm sure you're blue haired friend would be happy to explain the rules." Rein smiled cruelly at Hiei.

"Shut up!" Yusuke shouted at Rein, seeing the way the angel's words stung his usually perky friend.

Botan just shook her head back and forth as if she were saying no to someone who was torturing her. She looked defeated and worn out, not wanting to say another word she just kept shaking her head.

"Tell me onna, or you won't have to wait any longer to spontaneously combust." Hiei snapped at Rein.

"Gladly, Jaganshi-sama." She mocked him before continuing, "Basically for you, a demon, it'd be considered involuntary suicide but if you want the rules on how to play this game of evil it starts out like this.

1.Six people on a team. No substitutes, if one dies, that's your problem.

2.No killing outside the arena, although you can rough 'em up a bit.

3.There is only one rule to fighting within the arena, the fight doesn't end, and you can't retreat, until every person on the other team is dead. Even if you're the only one living and you have another fight to fight you have to go in and die with dignity.

The last persons, or more likely, person, living is the winner and is granted anything he or she desires. Enma sent me into the tournament before but because he had complete sponsorship of our team, he didn't grant me my whish. He sent me away and alone because not one of my team members made it out alive. He forced me into it but I escaped with my life and, luckily, all body parts intact. Any questions?" Rein asked with feign expectation.

"WHAT??????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Yusuke shouted.