Disclaimer: I do not own Inu Yasha or Yu Yu Hakusho.

A/N: Well, good news to you folks. I am not discontinuing this fanfic. It took me awhile (not really just being lazy)to not be upset with you people.Since I'm in a better mood. Let's continue on with this fic!

Oh here's a little note. At certain parts, I'd want to put a side note, but I had someone tell me not to once in the reviews. Therefore, I shall put little numbers indicating my little side notes/author's note.

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The gang, including Hiei and Kurama, were walking to a village lost in sands, as it is dubbed. They heard a rumor of a broken jewel that had given amazing powers. However, there was tragedy going on and more than half of the population died.

"Kagome, I'm hungry!" whined Shippou. He got bonked on the head by Inuyasha. "Wah! Inuyasha hit me, Kagome!"

"Inuyasha," scolded Kagome. She looked over to Shippou apologetically. "Sorry, Shippou, I can't 'sit' Inuyasha because we can't cause any delay."

"Alright," Shippou answered, dejectedly.

It took seconds. It took minutes. It took hours. It almost took the whole day.

However…

Inuyasha took a sniff of the air. "I smell blood. It's very close by, and it smells fresh."

"We better hurry then," added Sango. Everyone nodded in agreement, as they began to follow Inuyasha who led the way.

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Kagome gasped and looked away from the scene that faced the gang. "How terrible," Miroku said, as his hand that gripped his staff trembled a bit. "Those poor souls."

Inuyasha sighed. "Miroku, let's start digging graves again."

"Again?" asked Kurama.

"Yes, again, we've been doing this a lot lately," answered Sango. "Because of that treacherous fiend, Naraku, so many people died." Her eyes darkened at the thought of Naraku. The bastard still has her brother under his control.

Hiei looked amused and simply walked away not all too affected by the scenery displayed. For him, it was easy to say this. They were weak, because they were weak, they did not live. Survival is the key to life, too bad that survival did not like them.

Kurama and Sango looked at Hiei's form. Kurama sighed. "I don't think Hiei at all sympathize or pities them. Just like him to think that." He looked over to Sango. "Should we help Inuyasha and Miroku-san?"

Sango nodded. "Hopefully, we could find a survivor around here."

"Kagome-chan/Kagome-kun…" They simultaneously said, while looking around.

Kurama blinked. "That's strange. Kagome-kun was right here a minute ago."

Sango looked around once more. "She probably went ahead."

Kurama nodded, and they both made their way down the hill into the little village of dead people. (1)

However, they did not find Kagome in the village.

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Elsewhere, Hiei had made his way into a clearing far from the village. He jumped onto a tree branch with his back faced against the tree. He looked up pondering on why he was really here.

The toddler made a lot of missions pretty simple, but this one had a direct reason. The fact that he and Kurama was sent specifically to this mission was pretty damn weird. Missions like this were usually entrusted to Yusuke and Kuwabara, considering Yusuke is partial human and Kuwabara is full human. He was only helping Spirit World's problems because they decided to forgive and give a proper punishment.

He scoffed at that thought. Forgive was plainly stupid. They should've sent hit to Spirit World jail.

"Hiei-kun." A soft voice spoke out to him. He looked down to see who called him. It was the girl, Kagome, as he recalled hearing her name called at the school.

He merely raised an eyebrow at her to show his amusement. Who would've thought the girl had the guts to look for him at a place like this? There was barely any sunlight, and there was a lot of low-life youkais that strutted about.

"What?" He said in a harsh tone. It was just to show that he didn't want to be confronted. He was in no mood to deal by the likes of her. Though, he stared at her features.

Blue-gray (2) eyes, which reminded him of Kurama's forest green. Raven hair, like his. A fair complexion. Long slender legs. He slapped himself mentally. From her face to her legs! What's next? Be like the detective and check her ass?

"What's wrong, Hiei-kun?" She knew that he was staring at her. It was in the tone of her voice.

"You."

She giggled. Where in all seven hells did she find this funny? Her giggles became into laughter with tears brimmed on her closed eyes. Her arms wrapped around her stomach, probably because she was laughing so hard.

"What is so funny?" Hiei demanded.

She tried to catch her breath, while using one arm to wipe the tears off her face. "You, of course!" She laughed a bit more. "You're so funny!"

"What the hell are you talking about? How am I funny?"

She began laughing some more. "You're so adorable!" She had to shout that aloud. Hiei jumped down from the tree.

"How am I adorable?" Kagome pinched his cheek.

"In some weird demented way," she began. "You remind me of my brother. Right now, he is in the third grade. And, why I say you are adorable, you have this baby face." Hiei removed Kagome's hand away from his face.

"You won't do this again will you?"

Kagome had this evil smirk. "Maybe." That voice of hers made Hiei feel so… no words could describe the irritating thoughts of strangling her. "Let's make a deal."

His eye twitched. "Why should I make a deal with you?"

Kagome's smirk penetrated through his sane side. It was slowly killing his sanity. "Hiei-kun…" The pause didn't reassure he'll even get out of the situation. "If you be my brother, we'll be in good terms."

Hiei remained silent. "Now, you are reminding me of the detective."

"I'll take that as a yes!" Kagome hugged Hiei, who stiffened at the touch of Kagome.

"I'll call you, Hiei-otouto-chan!" Kagome shouted with a squeal.

Hiei tried peeling Kagome off him. "Get off me!"

"Hehe…" Kagome let go. "Let's get back to the others, Hiei-otouto-chan!"

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"Are you sure that was wise, Koenma-sama?" asked Botan. It was the millionth time she asked this week. It was getting on Koenma's nerves, but he wasn't going to pour all his anger on Botan. He then slowly turned to look at her.

"Yes, I'm sure that I made a wise decision," he tried to say it in a polite tone. A tone that didn't show his aggravation and annoyance towards her. Though, it had slipped.

Botan laughed a bit nervously. "Am I bothering you, Koenma-sama?" Koenma stared at the tons of paper scattered and piled on his desk. It was triple the size of his teenage form. Then, he couldn't concentrate to approve or disapprove of these decrees and laws being passed around. Then, he looked at Botan and something in him clicked.

"Botan…"

Botan tilted her head, curiously. "Yes, Koenma-sama?"

"GET BACK TO WORK!"

"Yes, Koenma-sama!"

End of Chapter

(1) Just thinking about the village of the dead people reminds me of those zombie movies that'll just rise up and attack, but then the people will be clueless and say "Hey! Are you alright?"

(2) I don't know if it's gray or grey and I usually go to my number one source of definitions and thesaurus But, the definition just confused me, so I couldn't make up my mind.

Okay, at the end, I had to put the humor in it. Heh. Well, I hope you enjoyed this chapter.