Freckledgirl: Huzzah for updating! I wrote the first half of this in my algebra class, and the second half in history during a movie about the Civil War. You can tell when I get most of my writing done.

Disclaimer: I don't own YYH or its characters. Looks around for lawyers hiding in bushes "I SEE YOU! GET AWAY! SEE THE DISCLAIMER!"

"I don't think I'm dreaming, and I'm pretty sure I'm not insane," Mia said, then pinched her arm to check, which produced a yelp and most likely a future bruise. "Well, I may be insane, but in the even that I'm not, and this really is happening, an adventure like this sounds a lot better than my usual boring life. And I don't even know how to get home at any rate (A/N: I'm thinkin' Wizard of Oz moment here), so it's not like I have much of a choice," she continued on to herself. "So I'll just have some fun, whatever it is that's gonna happen!"

Mia concluded this decision with a smile and decided to see where the path led, which was hopefully somewhere with food and a place to stay, as she didn't have any food with her, just 62 cents in assorted coins and some lint in her pockets. After a while, Mia noticed a sinister looking scaly lizard demon coming up the path toward her. Sidling up to Mia, he gave a creepy smile, revealing several broken teeth.

Ok, uber strange, but hey! I'm in the Makai... she thought.

"Um, can you tell me where the nearest town or inn is?" she asked the lizard demon a little feebly.

"Why, what's a pretty little ningen girl like yourself doing in a forest like this?" he asked, ignoring her question and looking her up and down.

Eeew, creepygrossnasty! she thought, noticing his roaming eyes.

"I'm not really sure actually, but could you please tell me where I could get something to eat?" she asked again.

"Well, why don't you come with me and I'll show you," he said, an evil smirk crossing his ugly, green face. The lizard demon had been inching closer to Mia while he talked to her, and now he sneakily reached over and attempted to grab her ass.

Mia sprang away, her face red and her green eyes angry. Forgetting that he was a demon and could potentially kill her if she pissed him off, she kicked him where the sun don't shine (A/N: my friend's phrase of choice, adopted by me), putting all her pissed-off-ness into it. She then turned around and ran, realizing what he could do to her when he got up, going full steam down the forest path.

Mia ran and ran and kept on running, her eyes on the ground ahead of her (think the theoretical horde of chainsaw-weilding clowns behind her type running). Mia didn't even look up to see where she was, she just kept on running until she suddenly slammed into something with a tremendous SMACK! Reeling backwards, Mia slipped on a loose stone in the path, fell backwards, and felt her head hit something hard. Then, the world around her faded to black.

"Mmmph..." Mia wriggled around in her bed and shut her eyelids tighter against the light trying to pry them open. "Mom, it's Saturday, I don't have to get up yet," she mumbled, pulling the blanket up around her chin, her eyes still closed.

Suddenly, a high pitched, childish voice sent Mia's eyes open in a second.

"Mom? I'm not your mom! Hahaha, you must've hit your head harder than we thought!"

A young boy with brown hair, maybe 9 or 10, stood over Mia giggling, his baseball cap at an odd angle.

"AAAHH! Who're you! Where am I!" Mia shot upright, very alarmed by this point. Suddenly the day's previous events came back to her and she remembered what had happened. Along with this, her head started pounding furiously.

A young man who looked to be about 16 stood up from a chair a few feet away and went to Mia's bed.

"Well now, it's nice ta see yer awake there Lassie! We thought ya might be out fer a while longer, and we were startin' to get a wee bit worried!" All this was said very quickly by a cheerful voice with a kind Irish lilt. Mia looked up at the boy talking and noticed that he bright red hair sticking up at odd angles and pointed elf-like ears that wiggled while he talked. A small white horn poked out from the unruly hair, and blue eyes smiled down at her.

"Um, where exactly am I right now? And who are you all?" Mia asked, looking around the room. There was a guy who had blue and green hair and a slightly chilly, apathetic expression. There was also a tall man with a mohawk and a slightly drunken look.

"Of course ya'd be wantin' ta know, ya must be a bit dazed eh?" the red-haired guy said in his charming Irish accent. "Me name's Jin, and this is Touya," he motioned at the chilly little man, "and that's Chuu over there," he said, nodding at the man with the mohawk. "'Ello there Sheila!" he added. Jin continued, "and the little kid is Rinku," at which point Rinku waved and started playing with a yo-yo.

"Now that ya know us, who might you be?" Jin asked.

"I'm Mia," she replied, rubbing her aching head. "I'm from the Ningenkai. How exactly did I get here? All I remember is running from this pervy lizard demon guy."

"Well, the five of us were on our way from the Dark Tournament," she gave him a confused look, " and out of nowhere, you come chargin' down the path!"

"Yeah, you sure can run for such a little one," Chuu added.

"As I was sayin', you came shootin' down the path and slammed directly into me! Then you tripped on somethin', fell backwards, and hit yer noggin right hard." Mia winced, now remembering that part.

Ya were knocked out stone cold, so we brought ye back here to the Dark Tournament arena, which is where we were stayin'."

"Erm, the Dark Tournament? What's that?" Mia asked, hoping she didn't sound too stupid.

"It'sa fightin' contest I guess ya could say," Jin replied.

"Oh. Gotcha... I think..." Mia said, still a bit confused.

"Now, if I may ask, just how did you get here? You're obviously human, and humans generally don't show up very often in the Makai," said Touya.

"Well, it's sorta a long story. I was going to school, then this big demon came and kidnapped me I guess. He opened up this portal thingy, then chucked me in there and we ended up here in the Makai. I ran away while he and this other important looking demon were arguing, then this creepy lizard demon came up and tried to grope me! I kicked him in the balls and ran away, apparently straight into you all. And here I am. I guess it wasn't that long actually."

"Wow, you kicked a demon? Not even I'm that stupid!" Rinku said unabashedly.

"Yeah well, I wasn't really thinking about that at the time," Mia replied.
Laughing, Jin said, "Well, yer welcome to stay with us! We love company, and we were just headin' into town to find another place to stay. We normally wouldn't ask someone we just met to stay with us, but ya seem like a nice girl, and ya obviously haven't got anywhere else to go."

"Really! I'd love to! Erm, that is, if you don't mind," Mia said, secretly thrilled.

"Oh don't worry, we don't mind a bit" said Chuu, giving her a slightly boozy smile.

"Then it's settled! If yer head's feelin' a bit better, we'll head into town now," Jin said, giving Mia a big grin.

"Yeah, I'm feeling better, my head's only pounding minimally now," she replied, giving him a grin of her own. Mia tried to get out of the makeshift cot, but tripped on the edge and fell face-first onto the floor.

"Right, maybe I'm still a bit off, but I'm okay!" she said, blushing as she got up. "Anyway, let's go!"

And with that they were off.

Freckledgirl: Chapter 4 is up and running! I'm running out of ideas, suggestions please!