Boton slowly floated over the River Styx, explaining everything about the spirit world, but more importantly, the spirit detectives.
"So what does the spirit detective have to do with me?" Sakura asked.
"Well the current spirit detective, Urameshi Yuuske, is retiring, so we've been looking for a new one, and you'd be perfect for the job. Koenma will explain more when we get there." Then with surprising speed, Boton took off, a desperate Sakura hanging on for dear life. After what seemed like an eternity, the hellish ride came for an end.
"Whoever gave you your flying license should be found and shot." Sakura panted, never being so glad to be back on solid earth.
"Hurry up, Koenma's waiting for us." Boton said as she calmly stood there. Sakura just grumbled as they moved forward to a very large set of doors. The doors opened to reveal a very long, very creepy looking hallway.
"You know, this place wouldn't be too bad if they took out all the really freaky stuff and added some photos on the wall, or something." Sakura said, very creped out at the décor.
"Really?" Boton asked.
"No, not really, the décor right now just screams homey." Sakura said. 'She should have been a blond.' She thought, chuckling at the thought. Within another five minutes they were at another set of large doors. Boton calmly walked over to an intercom set in the wall and said
"Boton here, bringing Sato Sakura." And with an ominous creak, a normal sized door opened up in the door. Not knowing what to expect next, Sakura stepped through, to find herself at the beginning of a maze of cubicles, and green skinned things, running around in a panic.
"Okay then…" Sakura thought. Boton paused for a second, letting Sakura admire, or not, the view. She then started making her way through the maze. Soon they were at a door marked Prince Enma Jr...
Meanwhile, while Sakura was making her way to Koenma's office, Koenma was giving the spirit detective team their latest mission.
"Thank you all for coming here. Now your latest mission is of the utmost importance."
"So what is it Koenma, we don't have all day." Kuwabara snapped.
"If you hadn't interrupted me, I was just going to tell you. Now the mission is simple, train this girl." Sakura's photo showed up on the giant monitor on Koenma's wall. "Her name is Sato Sakura, she's 16 years old, and lives at a local orphanage."
"So what's so important about her, she looks like a regular 16 year old." Yuuske asked.
"What's critical about this mission is she is going to be your replacement when she is fully trained. Now Boton is bringing her, and she should be here shortly." As soon as Koenma finished speaking, there was a knock at the door. "Perfect timing. Boton, come on in."
Boton led Sakura into the room. Her first thought was 'Wow, this room is larger than it looks.' Her second thought was 'Wait is that a toddler??' Koenma jumped down from his chair and came out from behind the desk.
"Welcome Ms. Sato, my name is Koenma; it's a pleasure to meet you." He held out his hand.
"Um, hi?" She said shaking his hand.
"Well she is definitely taking seeing Koenma for the first time better then I did." Yuuske said
Koenma shot him a glare as he said. "Let me introduce you to everybody else. The man who just spoke is Yuuske Urameshi, the current spirit detective. To his left, the man with the orange hair is Kazuma Kuwabara. Next to him is Shuuchi Minamino, but he prefers to be called Kurama. Leaning up against the wall is Hiei. The four of them make up the spirit detective team. Now Boton has told you about what the spirit detective does?" Sakura nodded her head. "Well as it ends up, Yuuske has other responsibilities and can't be spirit detective, so for some time now we've been looking for a suitable replacement. You've been at the top of our list for some time now."
"But why me? I'm nothing special. I'm just Sakura."
"You are hardly just Sakura. Have you ever noticed how you can sense and see things that nobody else can see? That is just an early manifestation of your spirit energy. Because you have spent some time as a spirit, your spirit energy has increased dramatically. So when you return to your body, you will need training to control and refine your abilities. That's why Yuuske and the others are here. Now in order for you to return to your body, you have to carry this egg around."
"An egg? What's going to hatch out of it?"
"Well, that varies." Yuuske said. "I had to do the same thing. The egg feeds off of your emotions and intents, if you have mainly bad intentions, when the egg hatches, it will turn out to be a large monster that will devour your soul. But if you have good emotions, like happiness, when the egg hatches it will turn into a manifestation of your soul."
"Wow Urameshi, who knew you actually paid attention?" Hiei said.
"Shut up Shrimp!!!" Yuuske yelled.
"Are they normally like this?" Sakura asked Kurama as Yuuske and Kuwabara started to fight because of some comment.
"Yes, they are. I'm surprised how long they lasted without getting into a fight."
"ENOUGH YOU TWO!!!" Koenma bellowed. "Sakura, you need to get back to your body, here's the egg and one of us will get in touch with you."
Sakura grabbed the egg as Boton grabbed her arm and pulled her out of the office. After another whirlwind trip down the River Styx, Boton stopped outside a window of a hospital.
"This is where I leave you. Remember, the egg has to stay on you at all times, and one of us will be in touch with you. Oh, almost forgot, in order for you to join back with your body, just touch it and you will join up again. Bye!!" Boton waved and then shot off disappearing from sight.
Sakura sat there for a second, then floated over to her body and touched her hand. And she knew nothing else.
A.N. Yay! Second chapter is finished. I'm having a lot of fun with this story. And if anyone was wondering, Yuuske and Kayko are married, and everybody is in their early 30's. REVIEW!!! And if you don't, I won't post another chapter.
1/21/2007- this chapter has been edited, to fix some minor things that I didn't like