((Chapter 4))

Hey. I'm back. I'm finally allowed on the comp. I'm off the hook for my C in English because my parents finally see my teacher is out to get me. Anyhow, thanks to my reviewers.

Me/nembe- My friend and I seriously dyed her brother's hair cause he wouldn't help us load some stuff into his car.

DsDarkrose- The band is called Dark Paradise. Thanks for the interest and the review. Hope you enjoy the next chapter

Thanks again reviewers and Here's the next chapter.

Dream.

Alena ran franticly through the fields.

Death, blood, fighting. The sights and smell were driving her overboard.

As far as she could see, humans and demons alike lay slain on the battle field. It was too much for her to handle. She'd never had to deal with this much death and destruction before. And the chaos. Wounded soldiers running just to be shot down. Merciless, pointless killing.

Alena collapsed to her knees unable to bare any more.

End dream

Alena woke with a slight scream. She was panting slightly and her whole body was covered in a cold sweat.

A soft knock came at her door.

"Come in." She murmured quietly. Kurama opened her door slightly.

"Are you alright?" He asked.

"Yeah, why?" She said. 'Like shit I'm alright. With nightmares like that?' She thought silently.

"I heard you scream."

"Oh, that." Alena said trying to stop her voice from shaking. "Just a nightmare. Nothing big."

Kurama gave her a look that clearly said he didn't quite believe her, but her didn't push the subject.

"Hey, Kurama? Where's my stuff?" Alena asked.

"Probably still in the car. I don't believe anyone brought it up." Kurama replied.

Alena nodded slightly. "Okay. Thanks. You can go back to sleep now." Kurama nodded and started to close the door.

"And Kurama." Alena said, and he paused. "Thanks for caring." Kurama nodded again and closed her door. Alena lay back and drifted into a much less troubled sleep.

.:Around 3 hours later.:.

Dream

Laci watched in horror as images of people dying and being tortured played before her eyes.

Gasping for air, she fought to get away, but the images kept haunting her. Where was she?

Why couldn't she escape?

As images became clearer, she could make out people she cared about either dead or at the hands of fate.

"NO!!! STOP!!!" She screamed to no one, closing her eyes to block out the images. "Make it stop."

End Dream.

Laci awoke slightly out of place here sheets tangled around her legs as if she'd been running..

As her vision cleared she realized exactly where she was. Rubbing her head, she stumbled towards the door to the room she was staying in, running her fingers through her tangled blonde curls on the way. There was no way in Hell's fire she'd be able to get back to sleep after that dream.

She followed the smell of cooking food to the assumed kitchen. Alena was making pancakes with the help of a girl a little under five foot, with sea-green hair and red eyes.

"Hey. You're up early." Laci muttered.

Alena sighed. "It's almost nine." The dark haired girl rolled her eyes slightly. "Anyway, Laci, this is Yukina. Yukina, Laci."

"It's a pleasure to meet you." Yukina said with a slight bow.

"The pleasure is all mine." Laci said with a slight grin.

"Yukina, I can finish breakfast from here. Go get Laci's opinion on the situation with your brother," Alena said.

"Brother?" Laci asked.

Yukina nodded slightly. "I know I have a brother, but I haven't been able to find out who he is. It's really quite depressing."

Laci nodded slightly. "I don't know what I'd do without my older brother." Laci thought for a moment. "You know, you kinda look like Hiei, a little bit. Your eyes are the same color and they've got that same sort of distant look."

Yukina smiled. "I'd be greatly honored if Hiei was my brother. I know he's committed crimes in the past, but he's also done many good deeds." Yukina sighed slightly.

Before anything else could be said, Amanda, Marissa, and Maggie rushed in to the kitchen.

Yuskue and Kuwabara followed a few seconds later.

"FOOD!" The two boys almost yelled.

"Sit down and wait. It'll be ready momentarily." Alena snapped. Yuskue and Kuwabara sat immediately. The crowed around Yukina.

"Hiya. I'm Amanda."

"Marissa."

"Maggie."

"Nice to meet you. I'm Yukina." The ice-maiden said seeming slightly overwhelmed.

"Sit down you three. You'll give the poor girl a heart attack." Laci said.

The three sat down obediently. "Ya know what. This place doesn't seem to have any sort of alcoholic beverages anywhere." Alena muttered.

"Where you really expecting any?" A voice came from the doorway to the kitchen. Genkai stood there with a slightly amused expression on her face. Alena shrugged slightly.

"I'm used to having at least, like, beer around." She replied. Genkai laughed softly and took a seat at the table.

"Oh, I'm sorry to be rude. I'm Alena." The girl said with a slight bow. "You must be Master Genkai."

Genkai nodded slightly. "Aren't you a bit young to drink?"

Alena bit her lip slightly, shrugged and turned back to her cooking. "So?" Laci asked. "I've been drinking at least since I was 12."

"11." Marissa corrected her. "I've been drinking as long as you have."

Genkai and Kuwabara gave the two slightly strange looks. Yuskue didn't even seem to notice.

"Where are Hiei and Kurama?" Alena asked noticing to two were missing.

"They were up a few hours ago. They're most likely out training." Genkai said.

"A few hours?!?! Damn. Hope our training doesn't include being up at six." Laci said.

"I was up at seven." Alena muttered. She'd awoken only about an hour after her nightmare. "Anyhow, they're gonna miss breakfast."

"They'll live. Can we eat now, please?" Yuskue said.

Alena lay a large plate of pancakes, and bacon on the table. "Enjoy." She murmured before turning towards the door.

"'ere 're 'u 'oing?" ((Where are you going?)) Yuskue asked through a mouth full of food.

"To take a shower and get dressed. There had better be some food left for me when I get back." Alena said. "And don't eat so fast. You'll choke, and we wouldn't want that now, would we?"

Alena headed back toward her room. She was half way there before she realized she hadn't brought her stuff in from the car. "Shit." She muttered under her breath and headed out side. She totally spaced about the fact she had no idea of where the truck was actually parked.

Alena wandered slightly aimlessly through the forest around the house, taking in the scenery, without really thinking about why and car would be parked in the forest.

She was sorta out of it after her dream. The terrible images resurfaced in her mind. Stopping dead in her tracks, her thoughts flooded her mind, paralyzing her.

She didn't register the large ugly greenish demon in front of her until it was about to strike. She ducked the blow and started to scream. She couldn't do much else, considering she wasn't trained to fight demons, and she sure as hell didn't have the time to not go off her instincts.

Closing her eyes the swung her fist forward. It connected with the demon's jaw. It stepped back slightly stunned that it's seemingly defenseless prey had struck out. It retaliated by striking her across the face.

"Jackass." Alena murmured, wiping away a small line of blood that had formed from her mouth. The demon just picked her up by the back of her shirt and glared at her.

"You're quite the feisty one." He said in a deep completely disgusting voice.

"From most people, that'd be a compliment, but from you. I don't think so." Alena growled.

The demon gave a slight laugh that sounded more like sand paper against sand paper. "I think I'll have some fun with you before I devourer your soul."

"I think…. Not. Mother fucking jerk!" Alena closed her eyes and started to struggle and scream, seemingly to no avail. Suddenly, the demon dropped her and she felt a few specks of warm blood splatter her face.

She opened her eyes to see Kurama standing above her, with a really cool whip in hand, and the demon lying dead.

Alena took a few deep breaths to calm her breathing. "Thank you." She said barely above a whisper.

Kurama nodded and pulled her to her feet. "You're quite welcome. What where you doing in the forest?"

"I was looking for Amanda's truck so I could get my cloths." She said.

"Why would a truck be in the woods?" Kurama asked giving her a slightly amused look.

"W-w-well… I guess I spaced out. That nightmare k-k-kinda got to me." Alena said quite sheepishly, trying to control her stuttering, but failing. A blush was rising quickly to her cheeks. She took a deep breath to regain her composer. "do you know where the car is parked so I can cease to making a fool of myself?"

Kurama nodded with a slight laugh "Come on."

.:Inside in the kitchen.:.

Amanda and Yuskue had started a competition of who could shove the most food in their mouth at one time and they were both currently coughing quite hazeradsly .

"Alena warned you not too eat to fast." Laci murmured. The blond haired girl started to stare out into space and spaced out completely, her thoughts on her quite disturbing dream.

Hiei walked in to the kitchen to see the detective and Amanda practically choking, Kuwabara laughing his ass off, Genkai, Maggie, And Marissa smirking at how pathetic it was, Yukina looking slightly worried for their heath and Laci with her eyes slightly clouded over with a slightly distant look in them.

She snapped out of her daze as Hiei walked in.

"Hey Hiei." She murmured.

"Hn."

"Master Genkai, when do we begin our training?" Laci asked.

"Tomorrow. As soon as Jin and Touya arrive." Genkai said.

"Jin and Touya?" Amanda asked her coughing fit now ended.

"We faced their team in the dark tournament. Jin's a wind master and Touya's an ice master." Genkai replied flatly.

"They're gonna help train you guys." Yuskue said regaining the ability to breath.

"How so?" Laci said.

"Kurama will be training your friend Alena. Jin will train Amanda, Touya will train Marissa, and Yuskue will train Maggie." Genkai stated calmly.

"What about me?" Laci asked.

"Oh. You'll be training with Hiei."

"WHAT?!?!?!?!" The two yelled in unison.

"Who came up with that half ass pairing?" Laci snapped.

"I never agreed to that." Hiei muttered.

"You two will be training together because of Laci's weapon choice." Genkai stated. "And because you're the only two with dire enough attitudes to endure being in the same space for long periods of time." The two grumbled a few more mild insults, but didn't argue more.

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Alena P.O.V.

I tossed her bag in her room and hurried to the bathroom to shower.

I was quite embarrassed that I'd been attacked because of my sheer stupidity of thinking a car could be parked in the middle of the woods.

I undressed and turned the water as hot as I could get it with out burning myself. Stepping under the hot water I began to work some tangles out of my hair. I began to think back about the demon and shivered slightly. It would have been terrible to lose my virtue to such a creature. Plus, I'd just die afterward. No fun in that. I silently thanked Kurama. He'd saved more than just my life, he'd saved my pride.

Pushing those most dreadful thoughts away, I thought about what I'd learned about the gang on my walk with Kurama.

Kurama was a fox spirit with quite a history. His weapon of choice was a whip and he'd been working for Koenma for a little over a year.

Hiei was a fire apparition. Kurama hadn't gone into detail about his history, but I'd finally managed to get Kurama to admit Hiei was Yukina's brother, though I'd promised not to tell. Hiei's weapon of choice was a sword.

Yuskue was a half demon, and he'd died once, thus becoming spirit detective when he was brought back to life. Yuskue's girlfriend's name was Kieko and Yuskue's weapon of choice was an explosion of his energy called the spirit gun.

Kuwabara was completely human with extraordinary spirit awareness. He and hiei were mortal enemies, but he adored Yukina, seeing as he didn't know the relation between the two. Kuwabara's weapon was a 'spirit sword.'

Yukina was an ice maiden. Instead of a fighter, she was a healer, and preferred most things over killing. She didn't know Hiei was her brother and seemed quite oblivious to Kuwabara's affection.

Botan was sorta like the grim reaper, only happier. She brought souls to spirit world and helped the spirit detectives out at times.

Master Genkai was an old psychic with great powers. She was Yuskue's mentor and a very helpful member of the team. Genkai fought hand to hand combat or with spirit energy.

The two fighters who were coming to help train me and my 'gang' train, were two fighters named Jin and Touya. Jin was a wind master and Touya a master of ice. Kurama hadn't said much more except that he'd fought Touya in the dark tournament and Yuskue'd fought Jin.

I stepped out of the shower and wrapped a towel around myself. I glanced around the bathroom and silently cursed myself. I'd forgotten to grab a change of cloths. That meant having to walk down the hall, in a towel, and hope against hope, no one saw me.

I gulped slightly and peeked into the hall. I closed my eyes, counted to three, and I was off at a steady pace down the hall. I was almost to my room when someone came down the hall.

I froze when I realized it was Kurama. My stupid 'deer in headlights' act. I could have just kept moving. Kurama met my eyes for a moment then I snapped out of my daze. I covered the last few steps to my room and slammed to door behind me.

I took a few moments to observe my surroundings. And to realize this was defiantly NOT my room.

A soft knock came from the door behind me. "Oh. Shit." I muttered. Taking a deep breath I opened the door.

"Um, why exactly are you in my room?" Kurama asked calmly.

I swear I turned atleast four different shades of red. "S-s-sorry 'bout that." I murmured. Twice in one day I'd made a fool of myself inform of him. I hastily made my way out of his room into my own.

Closing the door behind me I slouched to the floor. I could be such a complete idiot sometimes. "God help me." I murmured before getting dressed.

Normal P.O.V.

Alena walked into the kitchen dressed in a black sleeveless shirt and black jeans with her hair in a loose braid. Everyone was seated around the table, plus two new arrivals plus two animals.

"Hi. I'm Kieko." A girl with short brown hair and brown eyes said. She looked about 15.

"Shizurue." A girl who looked a bit older said.

"I'm Alena." The girl said. "Um what's that?" She said indicating Puu.

"This is Yuskue's spirit beast, Puu." Kieko said.

"Spirit beast?" alena asked.

"It represents a person's true personality." Genkai replied

"Puu!!" the creature exclaimed.

"Yuskue's true personality is blue, fluffy and goes around saying Puu?" Alena said.

Everyone but Yuskue and Hiei erupted in laugher. Hiei just smirked and Yuskue just looked miffed.

"Hey, do you guys want to go shopping? You're gonna start training tomorrow, so you might not get the chance for a while." Kieko asked.

Laci, Amanda, Marissa and Maggie exchanged looks. "Sure." The four said.

"I guess I'll go for the sake of ya'll not leaving me alone." Alena muttered.

"Yukina, you should come too." Kieko said.

"Well am I invited on this little trip?" Botan asked.

"Botan!! Of course you are!" Kieko exclaimed.

"Oh, but first I've got to give you girls your communicators." Botan said. She handed Each girl what looked like a mirror. "Just open it, press that little red button and say whoever's name you'd like to speak to."

Alena's communicator was black with a sliver rose engraved into it. Laci's was black with red flames around it. Amanda's was pink with white flowers on it. Maggie's was midnight-blue with moons and stars in silver, and marissa's was orange with black tiger strips.

"Well then. Let's get going." Shizurue said and they were off to the mall.

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There ya'll go. Chapter 4 is finally complete. Please review. All flames will be used to burn down my hell hole of a school some day. One comment though. A lot of the events in this story have happened to me. Like the shower incident. I was sleeping over Laci's house and I forgot my cloths in her room, so I walked down the hall in a towel and ended up bolting into her brother's room on accident. Very embarrassing. Anyways, R&R. C'ya!!