Over: I now present to you, my assistant, Take Down!
TD: ... comes out, sheathing a bloody katana...
Over: And here's my other assistant, um, I don't think she wants me to say her name. I'll just call her Drag. Hey, Drag!
Drag: ... comes out, waving nervously...
Over: And finally, Larry.
Larry: ... comes out, on a sugar high... By the way, I'm a girl!
Over: Yes, Larry, you are a girl.
TD: Can I have Kurama now?
Over: Not until I get Inu.
TD: ...pouts...
Larry: ...fwacks Over upside the head for no apparent reason...
Over: Hey! ...starts chasing her with a stick...
TD: You want me to do the disclaimer, Over?
Drag: Why not? Someone needs to do it.
TD: Over does not own Inuyasha or Yu Yu Hakusho.
Drag: Boring.
TD: I'd like to see you do better!

Disclaimer:

TD: That's not fair! I didn't get a diclaimer headline!
Drag: ...gets a dragon tattooed on her arm like Hiei, and buys a katana... I can look like him, but I sure as hell can't own him.

"talking"

'thinking'

(telepathy)

Kasakia casually sipped her soda as she glanced over at Kurama who was eating a french fry. 'Good. He's preoccupied.' She closed her eyes as she drank, trying to avoid the kitsune seeing her from concentrating. (Hikari?)

There was no response.

(Hikari? Where are you?)

Her sister still didn't respond.

(Damn it, Hikari. This isn't funny.)

This time, she got a response, but it wasn't from whom she had expected.

(What isn't funny?)

She almost jumped. (Hiei? Hiei, is that you?)

(Who else would it be?)

(Did you get it? Where's Hikari? Why won't she answer me?)

(She's trying to retrieve the Shikon as we speak. I'll explain everything else later. In the meantime, I want to get rid of this bitch.)

(Wha? Who are you talking about? Wait, nevermind. Why don't you come over here? It'll make it easier to talk. Koenma has Kurama watching me like a hawk.)

(Alright.)

With that, the link was closed, and Kasakia opened her eyes as if nothing had happened. "Kurama?"

"Hm?" He looked up from his fries.

"Would you mind if Hiei joined us?"

"Hiei? But he's been missing since yesterday."

"I know, but he's coming over. I can tell you know." Kasakia fluttered her eyelashes to make the point. "Oh yes, he's bringing company with him."

"Company? That doesn't sound like Hiei."

"Who knows? He is a little mystery in and of himself."

"So I take it the engagement's going well?"

She gave him a 'you're crazy' look. "You've gotta be kidding me! Neither of us wants it in the least bit! We're friends, nothing more." With that, she grabbed her burger and took a huge bite.

"I see." Kurama popped a fry in his mouth, swallowed, then continued. "So you're not going to obey your parents' wishes?"

Kasakia swallowed. "Hardly. I'll date any guy that even remotely wants it, and Hiei won't bat an eyelash. Unless, of course, said guy does something he shouldn't. He's more like a protective older brother than anything else."

Kurama opened his mouth to say something, but was interrupted by the door opening and an extremely annoyed Hiei coming in.

Kasakia stood. "What gives, Hiei? I thought you said that you were bringing someone." (Or did you manage to ditch her?)

Without saying a word, Hiei took a glance outside, then walked over and sat beside her.

Kasakia blinked, then looked outside, where some girl with long, brunette hair, green eyes, what appeared to be some sort of red and gold low, crop top, and a skimpy, double-slitted, red and gold skirt, was bashing some random guy over the head with a quarterstaff. "Come!" Bash. "Out!" Bash. "You!" Bash. "Stupid!" Bash. "Demon!"

After seeing this, Kurama immediately ran out and stopped the girl from hitting him anymore.

"Ahhhhhh!! Demon!!" She started trying to hit Kurama now.

"Now tell me again why you brought that girl here." Kasakia raised an eyebrow as she looked out the window.

Noticing that Kurama was too preoccupied to listen in on their conversation, Hiei responded, "She's after the Shikon no Tama too. I would've killed her except Hikari said that we were too close to the hanyou for any human blood to spill. Then she told me to keep an eye on her and take her back here and ditch her somewhere, but the damn bitch won't leave me alone. She took one look at a car, screamed 'demon', then latched onto me. I'm lucky that guy decided to hit on her." He looked outside at the unconscious man.

Kasakia chuckled a bit, then looked back at Hiei. "So where is Hikari anyway?"

"500 years in the past."

Kasakia would've responded if it hadn't been for Kurama's untimely arrival, dragging the freaking out girl with him.

Hikari sighed. Try and try as she might, she just couldn't convince the hanyou to let her go with them. The girl was easy enough, sure, but as long as Inuyasha resisted, she wouldn't get anywhere. It was starting to seem hopeless.

'I bet he smells something suspicious on me. I gotta convince him that I'm a ningen.' An idea suddenly popped into her head as a wicked smile curled onto her face. "Hey guys!" She waved over at the cluster from her spot at the top of the stairs. "I'm gonna go take a walk. I'll be back soon!"

"You want some company?" Kagome called back.

"Nah. I'll be fine." She gave her a reassuring smile, then walked off, heading towards the forest.

As soon as she reached the edge, she ducked behind a tree, making sure that she was completely concealed in the shadows. She closed her eyes, seeking out any creature that was lurking nearby.

In her mind's eye, a usually harmless snake demon slithered its way along the ground not too far from where she stood. Her eyes opened, revealing them to be glowing a brilliant gold.

The demon stopped dead in its tracks, its own orbs losing their shine. Hikari smiled, a black brand forming on her arm. It formed itself into the shape of a snake, twisting its way up her arm, its own eyes glowing red until it stopped moving and settled for hissing on her shoulder.

The glow ever so slowing seeped out of her eyes, returning them to their natural steely gray. "Come here, my little demon servant . . ." she whispered in a soft hiss, a smirk forming on her lips.

The demon came, just as she ordered it, its lifeless eyes trained on her, its tongue flickering out of its mouth in a deadly hiss. "What is thy bidding, master?"

"She's taking too long." Kagome said, blinking out into the forest.

"Who cares what the hell happens to her? She's not our problem." Inuyasha leaned up against a hut. "Let's just go while she's gone."

"Sit boy!"

Inuyasha immediately plummeted to the earth, twitching.

"You realize that she's only human and can't protect herself out there!" Kagome put her hands on her hips, glaring.

Inuyasha wrenched himself out of the ground, spitting out a mouthful of dirt. "If she's survived this long, I'm sure she'll manage just fine!" He glared back at her, not liking his reunion with the earth.

Kagome was about to answer when a scream cut through the air like a knife, shattering any thoughts of bitterness the two were harboring.

"It's Hikari!" Kagome immediately grabbed her bow and arrows off the side of the hut and started running towards the forest. Inuyasha pulled himself up off the ground and ran after, Sango and Miroku emerging from the giant hut and running in toe.

When they arrived in the clearing where the scream had come from, they were met with a gruesome sight. Hikari was curled up on the ground, bleeding badly from two wounds on her leg and side, whimpering. The youkai who had caused it, a lower class snake demon, raised its head to strike again, opening its mouth to reveal bloody fangs.

Kagome gasped, then immediately reached for an arrow, but Inuyasha beat her to it, bringing Tetsusaiga down on the demon's head.

Hikari looked over from her spot on the ground, hiding a frown. She had hoped that they would at least give her a chance to take the enchantment off of it before they killed it. Now she was stuck with the brand on her arm.

"Lady Hikari!" Miroku rushed over to her, sitting her up.

She made another whimper and looked at him with half closed eyes. "Mi-Miroku?"

Kagome crouched down beside her as well. "Are you alright?"

"I . . . don't . . . know . . ." Hikari weakly looked over at Kagome, putting on a great display of pain. Then, in a last ditch effort to convince them that she was indeed a ningen, she went limp in Miroku's arms.

"Hikari?!" Kagome shook her.

Inuyasha also ran over. Now that he had gotten over his suspicions – after all, what kind of murderer would die at the hands of such a weak youkai – he felt bad for doubting her.

Miroku put his ear close to her mouth. "It's alright. She's still breathing."

Kagome and Sango both let out a sigh of relief. "We should take her back then," Sango said. "Maybe Kaede can help her."

"Good idea." Kagome nodded, then looked over at Inuyasha. "Would you mind carrying her?"

"Alright." Inuyasha nodded also, then picked Hikari up on his back.

The demoness put out a small, hidden smirk as they all started walking back to the village. 'Perfect.'

A simple dinner had somehow turned itself into a full blown sleepover, or at least that's what it seemed like to Yusuke. After eating a delicious meal curtousy of Ms. Higurashi, the kid, Sota, had insisted that he stay the night. He had refused for a while, but had eventually consented just to keep the damn kid happy.

Now he was sitting in his room, ignoring an endless barage of meaningless questions about some weird place that Yusuke could care less about.

"Sota! Your friend's on the phone!" Ms. Higurashi called from downstairs.

"Coming! I'll be back in a bit, Yusuke." With that, the kid ran downstairs to 'talk' to his poor friend.

He sighed, looking out the window at the still blue sky, just as a flicker of energy caught his attention. 'Hiei?'

Said fire apparition nonchalantly walked out of the mini shrine on the edge of the property, dragging a girl by her arm.

"Unhand me, you cursed demon!" The girl tugged at his hand, but her efforts were completely futile. She growled as she gave up, then reached behind her and grabbeda daggerfrom a sheath around her waist. She tried to bring it down on Hiei, but he was too fast and vanished before she had a chance.

The girl just laughed and sheathed the blade, taking off towards the stairs. "That should teach you to never mess with Yugure, the ninja!" she yelled as she took a step down the stairs.

Suddenly, she froze, her eyes trained on something at the bottom.

"DEMON!!!" She immediately ran back to Hiei, clinging onto him for dear life.

Hiei stood there for a sec, then tried to peel her off. She clung to him like a barnacle, her eyes wide and scared.

"Demon! Where?!" Sota's grandfather ran out of the house, clutching his worthless pieces of paper he liked to call ofudas.

Fortunately, Hiei and the girl had vanished without a trace, leaving the old man to start running around, trying to slap the spell scrolls onto some imaginary demon.

'That was . . . um . . . weird . . .' Yusuke thought, blinking at the spot they had vanished at. 'Now, I definitely need to find out what's up with that well.'

Over: So tell me, TD. What were you killing just a second ago?
TD: ...pulls out sword... Oh, just some anime haters.
Drag: O.O
Larry: O.O
Over: ...high fives TD... You go, girl! Did ya leave any for me?
TD: I left the Graham brothers just for you.
Over: ...pulls out machine gun and runs off...
TD: ...shrugs and runs after Over...
Larry: O . . . kay . . .
Drag: Now for some non-anime haters.
Larry: Kira/Sarah (...nervous laugh...), ForestSprite (Let's just say the pairings are gonna be a mystery for a while yet. Unless you're an absolute genius, of course.), OniyuriGaaru (I am Overobsessy . . . I don't exactly know what you're trying to get at, but TD has full access to my stories so she puts stuff like that in.), sweet-girl8270 (You're VERY welcome. A double thank you for you! And yes, it kinda makes you feel sorry for the girl . . . I know I wouldn't wanna read HIS mind.), Shadow Fox777 (Ah ha! I caught you! But unfortunatly, it must be done. And exactly what do you mean when you were talking about 'certain things?') She's sorry if she missed anyone.
Over and TD: ... come back, covered in blood...
Larry: O.O ...backs away, slowly...
Over: Oh yeah, can I have my spoon back, TD?
TD: Oops, sorry. ...hands back blood covered spoon...
Drag: ...hides behind Hiei...
TD: HIEI!!! ...hugs him just to piss him off...
Hiei: ...pissed off...
Over: Dude.
Drag: Over . . . she's scaring me . . .
Over: ...sees Inu... Hey . . . TD? Do you think it's safe?
TD: ...blinks at Inu...
Over: AHHHHHHHHH!!! MUSHY, MUSHY, PERVERT INU!!! ... runs away...
TD: ... runs away...
Drag: ... runs away...
Larry: ...blinks... What's everyone running from?
Over: ... runs back, grabs her, then runs away again... Ciao, minna-chan!