Disclaimer: Yu Yu Hakusho belongs to Yoshihiro Togashi and this is just a fanfiction. I do not claim this anime except the original characters in this story just so you know.

A Glitch in Time
Chapter 2- A Time Machine?

Ashley: Ok, I've made it to chapter 2. Thank you blizzard4526, kikyokurama, and bluepearldrops for your reviews. It's taking me longer to upload chapters due to my homework situation. We all have those. --;

The day was almost over. Mei decided not to wait for Shuichi to make plans about their assignment as Mr. Takahashi suggested. She didn't want to talk to him in the first place, and she had no clue where he is. The only thing left to do was to go home.

Mei took a few steps...

"Wait up!" She sighed and turned around. Shuichi was running towards her, red hair flying in the wind. "Sorry I'm late. A few people needed to speak with me."

Mei smirked. Even with the embarrassment of earlier still fresh on her mind, Shuichi's description of 'a few people' amused her. They both know 'a few people' actually means 'a hoard of fan girls.' "Err... So what do you think we should do about the project?" Mei inquired. She didn't want to encounter another awkward silence in case it gave Shuichi time to reflect back on the events of today.

They began walking away from the school aimlessly. "I have a computer in my room if you don't mind coming over," he suggested.

"I don't mind." They were passing by a garden now. The golden brown leaves carpeted the ground, leaving the trees bare and stripped. But to Mei, it might as well be spring with blooming flowers. Shuichi had just invited her over to his house.

He smiled. "We'll be there in awhile. Anyway, I heard you learned the martial arts from Kenji Togashi, is that true?"

"Yes, it's true." Mei was taken aback. "How did you know? Kenji actually adopted me when I was three, but..." she stopped. "What's going on?" They had crossed a street and everywhere they looked, there were people; people wearing suits, people holding posters, people talking excitedly.

"It appears we've walked into an archaeologist convention," Shuichi observed. "Or some type of convention at the least."

"Ding! Ding! Ding!" a blue haired lady wearing a kimono appeared next to them. "This is, in fact, the annual archaeologist convention. I'm Botan, one of the hosts."

Mei thought Botan looked familiar, like she'd seen her somewhere before, but she brushed the thought aside. After all there are a lot of people coming and going in the streets; she could have been any one of them.

"You two are just in time to see the main attraction," Botan continued. "It's an old time machine. Come with me and I'll show you." She motioned for them to follow her.

Mei turned to Shuichi. "Do you think we should go?" On one hand, this so called time machine may turn out to be a piece of junk and a complete waste of time. But deep deep down there's a part of her that was very curious.

"Sure. Our project is on time/travel after all. We may be able to learn something."

And that was settled. Mei and Shuichi pushed through the crowds with Botan in the lead. They walked past the center of the convention into another street. The people here were starting to thin out, and most of the artifacts on display were draped under a thick blanket. Mei shivered in the absent wind.

"This is it!" Botan announced.

There was nothing that resembled a time machine. They were simply in the middle of a street, a very empty street. "Where's the time machine?" Mei asked.

"Right beneath you. The inscriptions on the stone floor were written by the people who created this machine. We think they're instructions on how to work it, but the archaeologists haven't been able to translate all the words yet."

Shuichi bent down to have a closer look. "There's a picture of a sun and a moon."

"Yep. They represent the passage of days," Botan hesitated. "Umm... I gotta go now, but you guys can stay here a little longer if you want. Toodles!" and with that she took off, leaving the other two starring after her.

"Let's go too. This place is giving me goose bumps," Mei implored.

There was no answer.

"Shuichi?" She spun around and gasped. Shuichi was floating three feet in the air, and his body was transparent. Mei can't recall exactly what happened next. She tried to move her legs... no, she did move her legs, but they moved uselessly above the ground. Her surroundings were vanishing, vanishing until there was nothing except blackness. She felt like she was moving, but there was no light to guide her senses.

Next to her Shuichi's expression was unreadable. It wasn't of fear which was what she was feeling. It was more a mixture of surprise and worry. Mei blinked, and he was gone.

Her surroundings were changing again. It was getting brighter... too bright.

Ashley: Hmm... I'm not sure what should happen next. Most of the stories I write I make up along the way. I know that's an amateur way to write but I'm not a planned writer xp. Ok, plz review. Oi, my Spanish and history homework is giving me a big headache.