Yukina-kun: Sniff... Ghost Fighter a.k.a. Yu Yu Hakusho has come to an end.

Hiei blinks.

Yukina-kun: And I feel like I can't express the sadness I feel...

Kurama blinks.

Yukina-kun: It would be around three years before I once again see the wonderful story of Ghost Fighter a.k.a. Yu Yu Hakusho.

Kuwabara blinks.

Yukina-kun: And I will miss this story of Yu Yu Hakushu and and the two beginning and three ending songs...

Mentioned orchestra plays the two beginning and three ending songs in a slow tune.

Yusuke blinks.

Yukina-kun: I'll miss you all! *tears*

Yukina-kun runs to the forever blinking YYH gang and gives them a last hug.

The YYH gang blinks.

Yukina-kun: *wipes tears* Now, this chapter is *sniff* dedicated to *sniff* the last episode of Yu Yu Hakusho even if *sniff* this chapter has nothing to do with it... oh, I can't believe it! YYH a.k.a. Ghost Fighter is done... *cries inwardly*

Chapter 5: Lizards

"AAAAHHH!" Alexis shouted in frustration, "Like, where are the cars and convoys? Where are the roads and why are there like big insects and ugh! Look, why do we have to cross this swamp? I mean, oh no! Yusuke! Be careful ok? My legs got dirty already... Ugh! Eew!" Alexis said as she tried to take the dirt off her legs with her fingers, however, she seemed to not want to ruin her perfectly manicured fingers.

"Do you know that this is an easy mission, one that we finish in less than a day?" Yusuke said as he grumbled while Alexis was sitting on his shoulders complaining as he tried to walk the knee-deep, sticky swamp, "We've only been traveling for thirty minutes and yet it seems like a year..."

"Don't complain detective." Hiei said as he slashed the large mosquitoes that were trying to divulge on their blood, "It's not that bad unless you have gotten weaker than expected..."

"Don't grumble and complain there." Yusuke said as Alexis started complaining about how hot it was. "You don't know how hard this is..." he muttered hoping Alexis wont hear.

"Yeah shrimp!" Kuwabara said as he punched another mosquito away, "It is not that easy." Kurama grinned. Hiei kept silent and slashed the mosquitoes in a faster way.

"Hmph! I heard that Yusuke!" Alexis said as she made a violent movement nearly causing Yusuke and Alexis to nearly fall face down in the mud. "Yusuke!" Alexis said as she hit Yusuke in the head, "You really are so N.M.!"

"N.M.?" Everyone said as they stopped walking and slashing the giant mosquitoes.

"Yeah! As in Not Manly!" Alexis said. Kurama, Kuwabara, and Hiei snickered, "You nearly made me fall and a mosquito nearly bit me! Oh no! Ouch! Now look what you did! A mosquito bit me! It hurts! Ow! Ow! Hmph! You really proved that you are so N.M. It hurt! Where are we going? That is not the direction! Wait why are we stopping?"

Yusuke who had gotten enough of Alexis' complaining decided to deposit her in an island in the middle of an icky, sticky, swamp. Yusuke saluted to Alexis before running to where Kurama and the others were, a few five feet from her.

"AAAHH! Yusuke! Don't leave me here!" Alexis shouted as she was running around the small island waving frantically at the YYH gang, "Hiei! Kurama! Kuwabara! Don't leave me here! AAAHH! There is this giant thing crawling here! YUSUKE! HIEI! KURAMA! KUWABARA! Come back here!" she said as the YYH gang passed her deliberately slowly (except for Kurama) so as to torture Alexis.

"Don't dare leave me here." Alexis said as she started using her method of Pretend-cry-to-get-what-you-want, "Don't leave me! The gray thing is coming closer!!!" This time there was definite fear in her voice.

"Then go here." Yusuke sneered.

"No way!" Alexis said, "The mud is so dirty and gross! No way! I just manicured my toenails and these shoes are practically new and my T-shirt and pants are very expensive."

Yusuke shrugged, "Then stay there until the Gray lizard behind you will eat you!!" Yusuke said as he used a scary voice.

"Yusuke!" Alexis shouted, "Hiei! Help me!" she shouted to Hiei who was watching her trying to shoo the giant lizard (about Alexis' knee) away. He smirked as she took out her 'practically new shoes' and used it to swat the lizard away. The lizard, in return, seemed interested in the swinging sandals, stuck out its tongue, wrapped its tongue around it and started biting it. Too bad he did not like it one bit and spat it out almost immediately.

"Hm, looks like he did not like the Alexis Sandal Flavor." Hiei observed.

"Hiei, get me out of here!" Alexis shouted.

"Hn." he was very interested in how she would react to the giant lizard now that she did not have one of her sandals to shoo it away. Alexis reluctantly took her other sandal and swung it at the lizard. The lizard, hoping that the other sandal would taste better stuck out its tongue and tried eating the shoes. He spat it out. Nope not good.

"HIEI!" Alexis shouted.

Hiei smirked. If all ningen movies and shows were like this, he would spend his whole lifetime in front of a TV and inside the movie house.

"KURAMA!" Alexis shouted as she danced around the tiny island where the lizard was following her in its slow and steady pace. Apparently. Alexis seems to know the fable 'The Hare and the Tortoise' and its moral lesson: Slow and Steady Wins the Race. The lizard was walking in a slow and steady pace while Alexis was running around frantically. If this continues up, the lizard might manage to divulge Alexis' stuff.

"KUWABARA!" Alexis shouted as she nearly found herself cornered.

"Walk in the mud!" Kuwabara shouted obviously interested. The YYH gang was not mean however; this one was tempting them to be. "You don't have your practically new sandals already!"

"HIEI!" Alexis said when she knew the others will not help her.

"Um, do you think we should help her already?" Kurama whispered to the three of them.

"Hey, what are you all whispering there?" Alexis shouted from the tiny island. Yusuke, Kuwabara, and Hiei observed her and decided in one final answer:

"No."

"HIEI!" Alexis shouted. Hiei was getting angry.

"Alexis, you could stop shouting my name." Hiei threatened.

"HIEI! HIEI! HIEI!" Alexis shouted again, "Help meeeeeee!"

"I'm making a mental note never to fall in love with a ningen." Hiei said as he watched her dumbstruck trying to strike fire with the matches in the matchbox, "She does not even know how to strike fire with the matches?" he said.

Alexis gave up on it. "AAAAAHHH!!!" she shouted. The lizard managed to trap her already and Alexis was trying to lean on a big stone shooing it away with her foot.

"Bad Gray Thing! Bad Gray Thing!" she scolded as she hit its head as hard as she could.

"It is called a lizard Alexis." Kuwabara said.

"Bad Lizard! Bad!" she hit the lizard with her foot. The lizard was getting irritated. "Bad!" this time she struck it very hard with the stone. Like Hiei when he looses his patience, the lizard lost its patience too. It stuck out its tongue and with amazing and precise accuracy; it caught Alexis' foot in it.

"No! My perfectly manicured toenails!" Alexis shouted. "Let it go! Let it go!" she said as she started shaking her foot that, by the way was in the lizard's mouth. The lizard, who just wanted to taste her foot that had shiny red things at the end, had its head swinging violently at from left to right, from right to left.

"Maybe that was the reason why Koenma chose Alexis to be with us." Yusuke said dumbstruck as Alexis got really angry with the lizard and with one final shove, she threw the lizard in the mud icky, sticky swamp water. The lizard, sad that it had lost its to-be-friend, swam to the shore, shook the mud off with its slow motion, and went to the jungle, its head drooping low.

"That was perfectly not an N.M. attitude!" Alexis shouted to the now disappeared lizard's tail.

However, it left the YYH gang laughing their heads off at this particular and wonderful adventure.

***
The YYH gang had managed to pitch camp in the Makai that night. Due to Alexis' recent complaints, they had no choice but get to finish their mission tomorrow and if things get much more worse, they would have to finish it the day after.

"Eeew! Yusuke! There is an ant in my sleeping bag!" Alexis shouted.

"Coming Alexis." Yusuke said warily.

"Kurama! There is something uncomfortable under this thing!" Alexis shouted again.

"Coming Alexis." Kurama said warily. Ok, why not? I mean, here you were found a perfect and calm spot in the meadow with the moon shining beautifully above you and you watching it peacefully and thinking of the one you love...

"Kuwabara!"

"What?" Kuwabara said as he broke on thinking of Yukina.

"There is this tree behind me and its leaves are too noisy!" she said from her sleeping bag.

"What do you want me to do about it?" Kuwabara said obviously irritated.

"Just do something about it!" Alexis said, "Or maybe *sniff* you really hate *snivel* me... *sniff* *sniff*"

"Coming..." Kuwabara said as he looked around for something to keep the tree quiet. After two hours of working, the tree was tied securely into place by the ropes that he found earlier.

"Hmph!" Kuwabara said as he eyed the sleeping Alexis, "Not even a thank you!" Then he snuggled inside his sleeping bag that was in between Yusuke and Kurama. Hiei? Hello? Where else would he sleep except in the serenity of a wonderful and calm tree looking at the pearl that his sister gave him...

"Hiei." came a voice under him. It was Alexis. Grumbling, Hiei placed the necklace back in his shirt and jumped down the tree.

"Hn." Hiei said.

"I can't sleep." Alexis said using a baby voice as she was hugging her pillow. Hiei looked at her and saw that there were wrinkles under her eyes. Hiei sighed.

"What do you want me to do about it?" He said as he tried as much as possible not to go yodeling in her ears about wasting his time.

"I miss him." she said as she sat on the ground hugging her pillow. Hiei sat down beside her however every inch of his body just wanted to grab his sword, lash at Alexis, leave her there sprawling, jump up to a faraway tree, sit there comfortably, take out his necklace, and stare at it peacefully with no one to disturb him.

"Hiei? Are you listening?" Alexis said and Hiei saw that she nearly saw that he was hardly listening.

"Huh? What? Hn." he said in complete confusion.

"You waren't even listening!" Alexis said as she stood up.

"Hn." Hiei said.

"See?"

"Huh? What? Hn." Hiei said in complete confusion.

"Fine! Be that way!" she shouted as she stood up and walked away from him.

"Hn? Where are you going you ningen?" Hiei said as he too stood up.

"Far away!" Alexis said, "I don't care who you are and I know you will leave me alone and I will do everything by myself and you will regret everything you did."

What did I even do? Hiei thought. "Hn." he said.

"Yeah, and I'm walking here farther away from you and far away from everyone else. See? I'm walking! Walking!"

"Um." Hiei did not get the message.

"I'm walking farther away in the dark regions of the forest and I want no one to disturb me." Alexis said as she walked slowly away.

Hiei shrugged. "Hn. Ok." he said before flitting off with a smirk on his face.

Alexis watched dumbstruck as Hiei suddenly disappeared. "Hiei! Hiei! Hiei? Are you there?" she asked scared. No answer. "H-Hiei?"

The sound of the forest was deafening. The swish of the trees was as quiet as the darkest night. There was wind once in a while and it brought the forest into movement in that short span of time however silenced as it died down. The moon was shining above her however hardly illuminating the things that emitted sounds that brought fear in the night. And here, a young girl, alone in the forest, cold, shivering, in the middle of unsuspecting preys...

Where was Hiei?

"It's her fault." Hiei said as he sat in a tree suddenly stopping at staring at his crystal to look up at the screen as the camera faces him, "She wanted me to leave her."

Back to Alexis...

It was dark, chilly and Alexis had but a pillow to comfort her. The darkness of the forest made her squeak in every little sound. She was alone in this dark forest because a CERTAIN fire demon just LEFT her in there with NO one to BE with.

"What?" Hiei said innocently as the camera once more faces him sitting in the tree.

"Hiei?" Alexis said. Too bad, Hiei was a hundred meters away or maybe I'm just over-reacting...

A figure stepped out from the shadows.

"Hiei?" Alexis said as she looked closer. Hiei stepped out from it.

"Hn." He said.

"Hiei!" Alexis said as she run up to him and crying. "Why did you leave me?" she said as she cried in his shoulders. Hiei patted her back awkwardly.

"Um, I'm sorry." Hiei said as he pulled her away from him obviously embarrassed.

"It's ok." Alexis said as she wiped away her tears.

"Um, wanna go somewhere?" he said as if wanting to make up for the cruelty he had done. "Um, there is a lake there. Um, do you want to um, see it?"

He was rubbing the back of his head from time to time obviously nervous.

"Ok!" Alexis said. "Just promise not to leave me again."

"I wont." Hiei said with an evil smirk on his face.

***
"Alexis, if you wont come out of there, I will really leave you alone." Hiei shouted in the clearing. No answer. "Alexis!" Still no answer.

"Alexis, I'm not joking this time! If you don't come out in five seconds, I'll personally see to it that I won't get blamed if you get harmed." Hiei shouted. "One!" no Alexis. "Two!" No answer. "Three." still none. "Four, five!" he said obviously impatient. Still no answer.

"Alexis, I'm leaving you now." Hiei said as he turned to 'leave'. "Alesxis, there is a big dragon there that is on the loose." He said as loud as he could. Ok, he thought, so the dragon part was a lame idea but it was the first thing that popped in my head!

It was still quiet. No Alexis. This time, Hiei was starting to get worried... :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :::

Yehey! I still have thirty minutes for my computer time! I'll post it and look for some cool stories and hope that Shadowed Past and There's Someone Out There For Everyone has been updated. I feel good today!!

Oh yeah, Ghost Fighter a.k.a. Yu Yu Hakushu ended yesterday and now, at exactly five pm, Flame of Recca will begin. (I don't know that Japanese of Flame of Recca)

Oh well, even if Yu Yu Hakushu is gone, Naruto is there! I love that story and I can't believe it *whispering* I'm starting to like Naruto now that he is getting more braver than Sasuke. Of course, Sasuke is better than Naruto. *Giggles* ok...