Hello there readers of mine, (all two of them). Come closer so I may spin my tale of horrors and wonders (or Hiei and Kurama) listen carefully, it goes something like this...

Chapter Five: Ingredient One

Hiei and Kurama looked at the zombified Kuwabara. The black hair youkai smiled widely at the zombie. "Finally, a job more suited for your intelligence, a slave." Kurama shook his head at his partner's snide remark and then turned to Kuwabara.

"Kuwabara, we need... I need you to retrieve on of Yusuke's hairs for me." Kuwabara nodded, lifted his arms from by his side and stalked out of the room.

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The Lord was pacing back and forth in the small ticket booth of the dark tournament, seeing how that was the biggest part of the arena still standing. The storm had finally reached the island and was raging on outside. Rain pattered against the plexi-glass windows with a thundering sound.

The Lord looked down into the far corner at a large pink lump, sitting there. "You know Suzuka," at the sound of his name the pink lump looked up. His face seemed to have sunk, and had a shallow look to it. "The longer this takes the slower and more painful your death will be. You can't live long without your power." Suzuka stared up at the Lord, his eyes were partially open and it took almost all his effort not to close them.

"I trust Kurama to get the job done. He wants that potion more than anything. You could see the lust in his eyes." The Lord smirked at the clown oni. "Why didn't you let me get the potion ingredients, if you just let me keep my power, Kurama could have what he wants, indirectly, and you could have what you want from Kurama." The Lord's smirk had transformed into a sadistic little chuckle.

"I know you would have Suzuka, but I like to see you suffer. I hate you and you should suffer. You are an outcast in almost every way and no one needs you. I am just the one to teach you that lesson." Suzuka lowered his head and returned to his private thoughts (just wait until you give me my power back, you worthless piece of trash. Actually I am going to try to take my power back, all I have to do is break that charm around your neck.) Suzuka stared at the necklace the Lord was wearing, it was a small wooden pendant of the sun and the moon combined as one. The clown demons gathered what strength he had and stood up. He reached out to the Lord, but collapsed backwards back into his corner.

Outside the rain was slamming against the building, and large claps of rolling thunder could be heard, but so was the Lord's echoing laugh as they laughed madly at Suzuka's futile attempt to get his power back...

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"Kayko... you're so..." Yusuke's hand ran up Kuwabara's chest. "Kayko you're so... buff..." Yusuke's eyes shot open "BUFF!!" Yusuke looked at Kuwabara "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING IN MY ROOM YOU ASS!?" Kuwabara responded to the insult by grabbing Yusuke's hair, and punching him repeatedly in the left temple. He then swung Yusuke by his hair causing the fist full Kuwabara had to rip out of his head. After he had the hair in his hand Kuwabara turned on one leg and stomped out of the room, leaving Yusuke alone to recover from the attack.

Back in Kuwabara's room, Hiei and Kurama awaited their "slave" to return. Grumbling, Kuwabara limped into the room and up to the kitsune, he offered the fist full of hair to the kitsune in time to hear voices coming from down the hall.

Kurama and Hiei looked at each other nervously. The fox grabbed the hair from the clenched fist while his other hand grabbed the base of the small plant from the human warriors shoulder. He gave the plant a tug and the stalk and seed made a small popping noise as it excited the human's body. Kuwabara's body gave way, and went limp after the seed had come out, he had fallen to the floor with a loud crash. Kurama grabbed the dragon's arm and pulled him into the shadows just in time...

Yusuke ran through the door way of Kuwabara's room to find his friend sprawled out on the floor snoring loudly. "There's the bastard!!" Yusuke pointed at the sleeping lump upon the floor, Yusuke ran up to it and kicked him, with a yawn Kuwabara got up and looked around at the crowed that had gathered in his room.

"Urameshi? Kayko? Genkai? What are you all doing in my room?" Kuwabara yawned again while everyone was waiting for what was going to happen between Yusuke and Kuwabara. "Damn. I had the weirdest dream." He looked in Yusuke's direction, "but if you ever touch me like you did in my dream, I swear I will punch your head in... hey what HAPPENED to your head?... HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!! Just like I dreamed!! What a loser Ura..." Yusuke stormed up to Kuwabara before he finished his sentence and punched him in the face.

"IF YOU EVER GET THE URGE TO SLEEP WALK INTO MY ROOM, I'LL KICK YOUR ASS!!!" He then stormed out of the room. Genkai smiled at Kuwabara.

"I think you interrupted the idiot's dream. You guys are too young to think about things like that though, you guys will have plenty of time in the future." Kuwabara and Kayko both looked at each other confused, Genkai shook her head and frowned "Why did I even bother, you are too young to under stand anyway," She too left the room, muttering about the ignorance of the youth. Kuwabara and Kayko were now left alone. They looked at each other and shrugged.

"Good night, Kuwabara, hopefully you don't sleep walk again, but I'll see you tomorrow, ok?"

"Yea, good night Kayko" and then Kayko left the room leaving Kuwabara "alone" again. "Well that was weird, I was sleep walking? It was a dream right? I thought I had a shirt on..." Kuwabara looked at the small gash on his arm and yawned, "It must be coincidence... but I can't help thinking..." he looked into the corner where the two yokai were hiding, "oh well" he collapsed upon his straw bed and was snoring within minutes.

The two demons stepped out of the darkness of the corner and into the lamplight. Hiei looked up to Kurama's eyes. "Well that almost was a disaster. We were almost found out by the universe's two biggest idiots." Kurama offered a small smile to his partner.

"Even though we were almost found out, all went according to plan." Hiei frowned at he kitsune.

"How do you know that? How do you know we didn't' screw up?" Kurama held up the magic map in response to Hiei's question. The blue dot that indicated ingredient one was now of the map, instead there was a green dot flashing on the other side that said "ingredient two"...

Well that's it for ingredient one. It was another tale as told by Senshi. But what is ingredient two? Where is it located? FIND OUT NEXT TIME ON YUYU HAKUSHO!!