Disclaimer: I do not own YYH.

The day Yumi got out of the hospital she and Hiei went searching for the little girl. With the help of Hiei's jagan eye they soon found her. She was sitting between two headstones in a nearby graveyard.

When the two approached the girl smiled and said, "Hello Sad Lady, Hello Mr. Fire demon."

"Umm…Hello." Yumi replied.

"Alright Yumi we found the runt, I'm out of here." Hiei said. Yumi just nodded.

"So who are you?" Yumi questioned the little girl.

"My name is Sakura."

"Where are your parents?"

"Right next to me"

"So in other words they're dead."

Sakura glared at Yumi then shouted "They're not dead! They're not! They…they just went way for a while."

Yumi hearing the underlyingsadness inthetone of her voice.Yumisoftened her voice. "I'm sorry I didn't mean to hurt your feelings…my parents are gone to."

"It's o.k."

"So I wanted to thank you for saving me the other day, but how did you know I was in trouble?"

"Well, you see some people give me this strange feeling and I know their going to be in trouble soon but I don't know when or where so follow them. You just gave me that feeling."

There was a long pause between the two.

"Come on let's go somewhere fun." the girl said showing he sunny smile. Sakura took hold of Yumi's wrist an pulled her up off the ground then dragged her to a park about a half mile away and allYumi could do was follow.

When the two finally reached their destination Yumi listened closely to her surroundings. She heard the chirping of birds, quaking of duck, the quiet mummer or running water.

"This place is my favorite place in the whole world. Here it's always calm and peaceful a sort of sanctuary of the real world, from its pain and suffering." Sakura said.

Yumi thought Sakura's statement over and remembered when the whole world felt like this place. Yumi remembered the years before that fateful night, when on festivals her mother would where her favorite purple kimono and keep her hair in an elaborate knot. Yumi had always wanted her hair to be done in the same way but her hair was to short and she had kept it that way.

She remembered her father in his dark gray suit that he only wore on speacial occasionsand square shaped glasses. He had always smiled that had this warm and inviting way about it, and yet Yumi had always kept her lips in a firm scowl warning others to stay away.

Sakura seeing Yumi remembering what she had lost and saddened by the thoughts suddenly said "Let's go to the play ground!"

Yumi hearing this was yanked from her thoughts all she could say was "Huh?"

Sakura grabbed her wrist and dragged her to a near by playground and that was how Yumi spent her day on the playground playing like a small child. She forgot all her pain and for those few hours, all because of one little girl.

When it grew dark and the bugs came out to feed, Yumi and Sakura said there goodbyes.

Later that night Yumi sat on her couch stroking Ryu and Hitomi, as she listened to the news. At first it seemed nothing of importance had really happened until a usually perky newswoman said something that would strike Yumi with horror, shock and sadness.

"Today ladies and gentlemen a young girl estimated around the age of five has been hospitalized after the burning balcony of a theater fell on her. According to the girl her name is Sakura she has pink hair and green eyes…."

Yumi froze her heart pounding she rushed into her room and pulled a pair of jeans on not bothering to change her pajama shirt. She put on a random pair of shoes then raced out of her apartment. Ryu and Hitomi close by her side.

When she reached the hospital Yumi was panting. "Nurse…please… a small girl was admitted…to the hospital…name Sakura…pink hair green eyes, please tell me witch room she's in."

The nurse looked at Yumi stunned by her disheveled appearance. She blinked twice "Room B24 second floor."

"Thank you!" Yumi called back as she headed for an elevator. She pressed the up button and waited impatiently for the elevator to arrive. When it did Yumi lunged herself in. She felt around and found the second floor button.Then pushed it hard. Yumi stumbled back as the elevator moved upwards. When it opened Yumi scrambled out. She put her fingers against the plates carefully reading the brail as she went along until she found room B24.

Yumi entered the room listening to the annoying beep of the heart monitor. Watching Yumi enter the room was Sakura, covered in bandages, her breathing raged.

"Hi there." She said.

"Hi." Yumi replied quietly almost in a whisper.

"Sad Lady, I want to give you something."

"Ummm, sure what is it?"

Sakura showed her small blue ball to Yumi. "This, it's my favorite toy. It's made me happy so I want you to have it."

Yumi took it and nodded.

"Please, don't cry sad lady."

Suddenly Sakura's eyes glowed as visions of what was to come flashed through her head.

"Sad Lady, the gardener is in trouble. The one you're looking for is after the gardener." Sakura smiled and said, "Please don't cry Sad Lady, naku na."

"Sakura, who is the gardener? Sakura? SAKURA?" But Sakura didn't answer, she couldn't. All Yumi could do was listen to the heart monitor's long beep as she shook in horror.

A few days later Yumi was again dressed in all black standing in a cemetery. Yet unlike the funeral of Hoshi Tomko Yumi was the only one there. Yumi laid down a bouquet of pink roses and started to walk away when a voice from behind.

"Hello, you must be Yumi. My name is Iris; I believe I can help you."

Alright that's the end of that chapter. Kind of sad, and if your wondering I'm not adding another character in the fic to be the "gardener" I'm hoping it turns out to be something so obvious that it's complicated.