GCN: Ahhhh...for the past week I've been re-watching all the Yu Yu Hakusho in Japanese and a lot of my friends new downloaded Inuyasha, and Kenshin in Japanese. (Ooooo...that lucky bitch has ALL 160 EPISODES! I kid you not! :::grumbles::: and my computer is so obsolete that I can't copy them for me....Ooooo...Ooooo..oo...no offence Bri, I'm complementing you) anyway, there is a point to all this babbling of mine, that being that I absorbed some strange little quirks from the Japanese versions that may appear from time to time throughout the story that I'll do my best to explain. Hell, who knows, you may know more about it that I do.

For those of you who were wondering, Yusuke is not a full demon. But he's also not exactly a hanyou either. Its really more like a demon heritage thing, not that he's directly the son of a demon. Shikashi, I'm going to have it like he's a genuine hanyou in the story, just for simplicity's sake.

INUYASHA, MEET YUSUKE --- CHAPTER 3

The Spirit Detective and his friends all stood and clustered together, well, all but Kuwabara, who was still passed out on the ground. Yusuke inwardly began to worry about his friend, but didn't have time for that now that they had found Inuyasha and his gang.

Botan combed her finders through her hair, fishing out the clumps of grass and demon goo that had become lodged in there. "Yusuke, now what do we do?" she asked. She hesitated for a moment, and then grabbed a twig out of the back of Kurama's hair.

It was the kitsune who answered first. "Yusuke, I think that we should wait for them. It would be wise not to start off on the wrong foot, seeing as we're going to need their help."

Hiei coughed sarcastically. "Why not just drop down, swipe the damned jewel, and complete our mission in less than a day?"

Yusuke sighed. He was highly inclined to agree with Hiei, seeing as the explosion of demon parts had messed up his hair and put him in a really ticked mood toward this assignment. But, he also remembered how Koenma had said that the Shikon no Tama hadn't been all collected yet. Even Yusuke had to admit that it would be easier the more people were looking for the jewel. Plus, hadn't Pacifier Breath said something about Kagome being able to sense the jewel?

"This is going to take more than one day, Hiei," Yusuke muttered, trying to get his hair back into place.

"Well, isn't that unfortunate?" Hiei grumbled sarcastically.

The Inu-gang was busy slipping and sliding down the hill, and was approaching the group fast. Inuyasha was in the lead, followed by the demon slayer, the hoshi bearing the kitsune child, and Kagome in the rear.

Inuyasha, being far faster than any of the others with his 'leaping-and-bounding' way of running, came to halt in front of Yusuke as the others were struggling to catch up.

"Would you wait one damn minute Inuyasha?" the kitsune squawked loudly. His ride, as Yusuke later learned was Miroku, wasn't exactly struggling to keep up, but all the motion he was creating was jostling Shippo around so much that he had to struggle to stay attached.

As soon as the two groups were clustered together at the foot of the mountain, Kagome stepped forward.

"Konnichiwa, strangers," she said pleasantly. "I don't mean to sound presumptuous, but you don't appear to be from this time. This may sound like a really crazy suggestion, but are you from the present?" She made little quotation marks around 'present.'

Yusuke just blinked. This wasn't going to be as easy as Koenma had made it sound. What the hell were they supposed to do, walk right up to them and say, 'Howdy! We wanna help you find the Shikon no Tama without you prying into who we are and why we're here!' or something??

Kagome waited patiently, but beside her Inuyasha began tapping one bare foot impatiently. Luckily, Hiei decided to take it into his hands.

"Are you the miko that is in charge of the Shikon no Tama?" he asked.

"Well, not exactly, but you could put it that way," Kagome answered, drawing a little circle in the ground. Whenever people said that it made her feel as if they were comparing her to Kikyo.

"And you're her hanyou?" Hiei said plainly, trying hard not to sound like he was sneering. But he should have known better, what with Inuyasha's sensitive doggy hearing and all.

Inuyasha caught the sneer and glared down at Hiei. "Oh, this is off to a good start," Kurama noted, dully noticing the similarities in the two's tempers.

Yusuke decided to step in. "I suppose you could say that." He decided that the simplest way to explain himself was to tell the truth...just with a few twists thrown in here and there. "We are special agents sent from the rulers of the Spirit Worlds to help you with your quest to dominate the Shikon no Tama."

Botan raised a fist and clubbed Yusuke over the back of the head. "Don't say that!" she hissed. He glared back at her.

Kagome didn't catch what Botan had said, she was a tad too busy being mildly confused. "Spirit World? Nani?"

Miroku was gazing thoughtfully. "Do you mean that you work for the Buddha of the future? Does he sent you on quests to right the wrongs of his lands, both past and present?"

Yusuke paled slightly. Koenma was anything but a god, (almost the opposite), but at least the monk was getting the picture. Though Yusuke was still worried that this would get confusing without tell them that they were going to claim the jewel and take it with them when they were done, let alone close off the well between worlds.

With a brush of wind, the hoshi was suddenly beside Yusuke, facing Botan. He had grabbed both of her hands in an embrace and closed his eyes all pleasantly.

"N-n-na...?" Botan squeaked.

"I mean, with an angel as striking as this, you must be send from some heaven, ne?" Miroku purred, drawing Botan close. "My name is Miroku, Goddess-sama, what's yours?"

"N-nani?" Botan blushed several shades of red, eyes all round. "Excuse me?" She slipped her hands out of Miroku's grasp, only to have him grab them again.

Out of the corner of his eye Yusuke saw all of the others, Kagome, Shippo, Inuyasha and Sango (who looked also slightly pissed), shake their heads and sigh heavily.

"I have but one question to ask you, fair lady," Miroku began.

"And what is that?" Botan asked, attempting to pull away and looking more than slightly uncomfortable.

"Would you consider bearing me a son?"

"N-N-N-N-N-NANIIIIIIIII?!" Botan stammered. A split second later she had freed herself from the hentai's grasp and backed away several feet, using all her willpower not to crack him over the head with her flying oar.

Yusuke, Kurama and Hiei all stared with identical 'WHAT THE HELL??' expressions for the next five minutes, while Miroku giggled innocently and ran his hand though his hair.

"Well, it was worth a shot, ne?" he asked no one in particular, closed eyes pointed upward like rainbows. With a 'thud!' the demon slayer's boomerang had landed sharply on the back of his head.

"Noooo..." Sango muttered.

Inuyasha rolled his eyes. "Keh! You'll never change, will you, lecher?"

Miroku shrugged innocently. "I wasn't planning on it."

Yusuke coughed, interrupting the two from continuing their conversation. "Um, guys? I don't mean to sound like an ass, but when are you going to tell us what to do?" Everyone turned their heads to look at him. "I mean, there's this big wrestling match on the tube next week and I'd hate to miss it."

"KEH!"

Now everyone turned to look at Inuyasha. "I don't know what this tube of yours is, but you'll have to miss it if you're planning on seriously helping capture the Shikon no Tama. We've been trying to capture the damn thing for months, and I doubt your magical appearance will speed things up at all."

Yusuke looked quite annoyed. This Inuyasha dude was coming out to be quite the mouth. Much like Yusuke's mouth, come to think of it. Yusuke muttered an unintelligible comment, knowing how much of a pain-in-the-ass his own mouth could be.

"Anyway, I'm not quite gettin' how you guys came here anyway. Only Kagome and I can pass through the well." Inuyasha's normal overly-suspicious sense was coming through strong now. "I can tell that most of you are demons," he added with a sly look at Yusuke. "Who in their right mind would send a bunch of demons after the Shikon no Tama?"

Miroku and Sango nodded slowly, and Yusuke noted that the slayer's hand was closer to her weapon than before. Yusuke was getting a little fed up with the way that Inuyasha was staring at him.

Kurama even looked a little perturbed. Hiei...well Hiei was already past a little perturbed, so he seemed to almost be glowing with rage. Kuwabara was just beginning to come out of his funk, blinking every few moments with a glazed-over expression, with Botan kneeling over him worriedly, (still bright red from her encounter with Miroku.)

"Um...Inuyasha? I think you made them mad," Shippo said, pointing at Hiei. Inuyasha shrugged.

Kurama coughed softly. "You have...rights, to be somewhat suspicious of our presents, considering the circumstances and your experience. Shikashi, I hope that you'd be able to work past that, and trust us. Our true intentions are to work peacefully with you."

Kagome looked at Kurama, specifically into his eyes. He was a demon too, but he didn't seem like the type to lie. The shorter demon didn't seem exactly BAD either, but she could tell that he didn't like Inuyasha from the start. And when people didn't like the hanyou, he was going to show them that he didn't like them either, and that was never pretty.

"Spare the politeness for once Kurama, this discussion is going nowhere as long as that HANYOU is doing the talking for them. The others are humans and children," he nodded at Shippo, "and yet they are more well behaved than this mutt."

Inuyasha lowered his voice. "Mutt?" BOY, he hated it when people called him that.

"That's what I said." Hiei drew a little circle in the ground with his foot, dismissing the hanyou completely.

Miroku looked from Inuyasha to Hiei, then back to everyone else. He could tell this was going downhill fast. Shippo sighed, muttering something about: 'Here we go again.'

Kagome came over, placing a hand on Inuyasha's shoulder. "Inuyasha...."

Inuyasha blinked several times in succession. He growled in dismissal, shrugging Kagome off. "I don't give a rat's ass what some wimpy little shrimp thinks, Kagome. In a fight, I bet he couldn't even cut off one hair of mine." (And Inu has A LOT of hair.)

"Care to give your theory a try?" Hiei said, almost too happily, in a scary kind of way. Inuyasha wondered briefly what the glowing circle on Hiei's forehead meant.

"Any day! Bring it on!"

'Dear Kami, he really does sound like me...' Yusuke muttered. As entertaining as it could be, Yusuke didn't want a scalded bald hanyou after Hiei was done with him. The Dragon of the Darkness Flame was more than enough for the inu, as long as he didn't have some tricks of his own stuffed up his sleeves.

"Guys, guys! I really don't think—" Miroku began.

"Can it pervert. You just watch out or the rest of 'em, so they don't get their asses fried too." Inuyasha had a brief moment of the look on Hiei's face if he found out that his own comrade was also a hanyou, and stifled a laugh.

Kurama sighed heavily, putting a hand to his forehead. "Not again...."

Yusuke still wasn't so sure if this was a good idea or not, but Inuyasha's companions weren't holding him back, and he probably wouldn't listen if they tried. So he motioned for Kurama and Botan to move back, with Botan struggling to move Kuwabara as he muttered a few random syllables.

Shippo squeaked out, "Run! Run for the hills!" as Kagome, Sango and Miroku headed off a safe distance, peeking over the edge of the hill they passed.

Yusuke smirked slightly. Who knew? Maybe this Inuyasha dude could put up a fight with Hiei after all!

GCN: Ahh...another chapter done. Gomen, gomen that it took so long to update. As I said, I'm getting into it now...if you know what I mean. Something had been bugging me about Inuyasha's name though. Inu, of course and DUH, means dog, which makes sense. But 'Yasha' when translated means FEMALE DEMON. Inu-kun ain't no girl. What the hell is up with that? Hmmm, come to think of it, there's also a character in Yu Yu Hakusho who's name is Yasha, and it's a guy too!

I did my best to keep the characters in line with their true selves. And hey, I don't think that anyone could argue with the fact that Yusuke and Inuyasha are similar personalities, and that Hiei and Inu are ALSO similar, just in different characteristics.

Also, I had a recent complaint (on another story) that the romanji Japanese I used was confusing a reader because they didn't know what it meant, on simple stuff that I though everyone knew. Shows that I was a assuming IDIOT, so if any of you ever get confused with any Japanese, I'll include a dictionary, or email you, or whatever. Sorry if it bugged you. :P

Now then, I'll attempt to update sooner that this time. Shikashi, I've been working hard on my other two Inuyasha fics (GO check 'em out!!!!), and need to update the others. In addition, had currently been a bitch and kept my from uploading when I tried TWICE now, so... And, heh-heh, I got the new Tales of Symphonia. SO SUGOI! Seriously, I pity those of you who have no Gamecube, this game kicks ass. (My point being that that may distract me from updating...gomen.)

Wanna see a good anime site? Then check out my bio! I have a new site that me, with my Anime Clan home-inus (stupid joke created). In the bio, there are like 3 links in there to it. won't let me put it in the story. :( ) Thanx! (Ada, that may disrupt updating too. And school is comin. Dammit! :::sigh::: busy, busy, busy...

Well, I think I've babbled enough. Please review now. :)

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