Okay, so here's an important note. I've decided to put this fic on hold. Some of you might be sad and wondering why. Believe me when I say this, so have I. I've been thinking about it for a while now. The reasons that I've come up with are the following:

1. I want to concentrate on Courtship Dance.

2. I didn't like the way the story was going in my head. I didn't like the way it was going when I wrote it down either.

3. I started planning the story during the summer. Yeah, long time ago, I know. I didn't have the motivation to do it then. And now I've lost that motivation to do it now.

4. I've no inspiration.

5. School is starting up again, so I'm going to be busy studying. I'm not really a smart person. And I need to keep my grades up. Especially since I'm going to be graduating in one more year. I'm a junior in high school. I've got SATs to prep for and HSPA.

6. It was turning out to be more than 3 chapters.

Originally, this story was only supposed to be three long chapters. But I started typing it down, it turned out to be a lot more than three chapters because I kept stopping at certain points and made it to a whole chapter. I'm going to try and go back to the three chapter plan. I want to rewrite chapter two and edit some of chapter one. This whole thing is going to take I while. So please be patient. But never fear, for I will work on it even if I lose the inspiration to do so. Again.

I'm not sure if I'm going to take out the story completely and repost it again later, or if I'll just leave it here until I have the three chapters done. So if you really like it, you might want to read it over again before I decide to take it down. If I don't take it down in two weeks time, I'll just leave it here until the newer version is up.

But here's the good news. My internet is working properly again. So that means that I got to send my finished work to my beta and have her (are you a her?? I forget) look over it and edit it so that it would be better than ever. And, since I can't post an author's note as a chapter, you guys get to see what's ahead in Castle walls. Lucky you. It's not a preview in the next chapter, but a little something for what's going or what I'm planning to happen. So enjoy.

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He punched his fist at the wall. Chucks of rock flew out, creating a large hole within the two feet width of stone on the wall. Sparks of energy cracked on the ground and on the walls. The air grew thicker with the feeling of dread. A black mist swirled around his body. An illusion of a black dragon formed from the mist.

"What… What did you say?" he asked in controlled angry.

"I… I just meant…" she started. She couldn't finish. She was too scared.

"You meant what!" he bellowed, turning around quickly to face her. His eyes blazed with anger and fury. Flames ignited out of nowhere and swallowed up the high ceiling.

Botan hastily took several steps back. Terrified of what was going to happen to her. "I-I… I don't know," she chocked out.

Hiei shut his eyes. His bandana came off of his head, revealing his Jagan eye. It was open. Botan's heart stopped beating. Her face paled. Her body shook with panic and fear.

"Hiei," she managed to say.

"Get out." Hiei's skin turned green. Outlines of eyes closed appeared all over his body.

"N-Nani?" Botan said. It sounded small and frail to her ears.

"I SAID GET OUT!" Hiei roared. All of the eyes came opened. All of them flashing with rage at her.

Botan flew out of the room and out of the castle.

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"Check," Sascha said.

Koenma moved his king. Sascha moved his bishop.

"Check."

Koenma moved his queen and took away the bishop that threatened his king. Sascha replaced Koenma's queen with his castle.

"Check again," Sascha smiled.

Koenma growled. "Are you sure that Botan is the right person?" he asked, trying to divert Sascha's attention away from the game.

"Positive." It didn't work.

They made another few moves.

Koenma lined the last of his pieces to defend his king. "I'm not sure if she's strong enough to handle him."

"Come now Koenma, don't you have faith in your ferry girl?"

"I have faith in her. I just don't trust him to take care of her. He never seemed to like her. And now I'm just handing her over to him just like that. All because you said that…" Koenma grumbled the last part so low that Sascha wasn't able to hear him. If he had been a human. So he did hear Koenma.

Sascha picked up his queen and looked carefully at it. "In almost all cultures, the male is considered the strong one. The one who expected to protect his wife or lover and family. And yet, in chess, a most popular game in Ningenkai, the queen is the one who protects the king. The queen is the one with the most power."

"But if the king is eaten, then the game ends," Koenma pointed out. "No king means game over."

"That is true. But, without the queen, the game is half lost. And chances of wining the game without the queen are slim. The queen is the one with real power. She goes and does what she pleases."

"I hate it when you get all philosophical on me," Koenma grumbled again.

Sascha laughed. "It's part of my job description." Then he put his queen down and said, "Check mate."

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"The chicken came first!" Yusuke yelled.

"No, the egg!" Kuwabara yelled back.

"The chicken!"

"The egg!"

"Chicken!"

"EGG!"

"CHICKEN!"

"EGG!"

"I'm telling you that the CHICKEN came first!" Yusuke's face turned red.

"And I'm telling you that the EGG came first!" Kuwabara yelled right back at Yusuke.

"Then what happened to the chicken if the egg was first?!"

"It got run over by a car when it tried to cross the road."