If I could buy Yu Yu Hakusho I would, but I can't so I don't own it

Ch.3

"So how was the concert this weekend, I wish I could have gone." Jamie was pissed that she had, once again, missed the fun.

"It was great! There was this one guy there that …Elisabeth, what are you doing." Aryn had just noticed that the other girl was staring up at the sky with narrowed eyes.

"It feels like someone's watching us," she answered, not taking her eyes away.

Oh crap, do you think she spotted us.

Don't be stupid, they can probably sense us but there's no way they can actually see us.

"You always think someone is watching us, now stop worrying and get over here," Aryn yelled. The bell rang signaling that recess was over and lunch was beginning. They all entered the lunch room and, after the people who didn't bring lunches fought over the spare food, which took most of the period, everyone settled in.

"So how was your weekend?" Dani asked Yami. Dani was not one of the experiments, but she was there friend anyway. She had light skin and amber eyes. Her hair was very long and naturally crimped; it was dark blond but she had it dyed a purplish-black color and tied in two knots on top of her head.

"Actually, it was great," Yami answered. "I got to spend Saturday with Seth." Seth was Yami's boyfriend, but her parents didn't like him so she barely got to spend any time with him.

"So what happened," Dani pressed.

"Oh, the usual" Yami answered with out really looking at her.

"You're being vague enough to make me wonder if something happened," Aryn stated.

"Maybe it did," she smiled but wouldn't say anything more. The bell rang at that moment announcing that classes were starting up again and everyone scrambled out of the lunchroom.

"This is boring, we're just watching these kids go through classes. I hardly go to my own, I don't want to sit through other people's," Kuwabara wined. It was five periods latter and the kids were on the last period of the day.

Don't complain, it's not often we get a mission where we get to do nothing." Kurama was floating on his back playing with an ivy vine, making it grow in intricate designs through the air.

"Wait, what are they doing now, there getting out some brown gloppy stuff?" Yusuke pondered out loud.

"With you being a detective," Hiei said "I would think you would be able to put two and two together. This is an arts school, and they are in a visual art class.

"So do you feel as dumb as you look," which earned Kuwabara a mouthful of fist. After spluttering around for a minute he look down at the kids and shouted "Hey wait there's two missing!"

"Relax," Kurama interjected before Kuwabara had a conniption. "The other two are in a classroom two doors down from here in the drama department." And Yusuke couldn't stop laughing.

"Now who's dumb?" Meanwhile Hiei was trying to ignore the whole lot of them.

"Bakas."

Forty-five minuets later class ended and school was over. But as everyone left to go home a problem was realized.

"Oh crap, there all going in different directions. How are we going to watch all of them?" Yusuke shouted, about knocking the other four out of the air.

"Not a problem, this is easily solvable," Kurama answered.

"What do you mean?" Botan asked.

"Follow me and I'll show you," Kurama answered and smiled as he started off to the nearest targets house.

"He's being vague again," Yusuke pointed out.

"Hiei, what did he mean by that?" Botan asked the fire demon, a little too enthusiastically.

"Hn, it seems the fox has a new trick to show us." Once they got to the house, Mikes, everyone stared at Kurama waiting for an answer.

"Okay, Kurama, spill it. What are we going to do?" Yusuke did not like being confused.

"Give me a minuet," Kurama said as he pulled a seed out of his hair that instantly grew into a single leaf as big as a soccer ball. "First off, everyone has to grab a hold of this." He held up the leaf.

"Then what?" Botan asked, curious.

"You'll see." So everyone grabbed on. Kurama poured his power into it and great creeping vines manifested. They were about as thick as a baseball bat, but there seemed to be no end to how long they could be for they just kept growing. The vines crept their way towards the house and began to wrap themselves completely around it, both inside and out. Once the vines successfully completed this task they stopped growing and, instead, starting sprouting hundreds of the soccer ball sized leafs. The leafs plastered themselves to every flat surface they could find, eventually there wasn't a square inch that wasn't covered by leaves.

"Ok fox, what did you do?" Yusuke said, rounding on Kurama.

"There called Guardian Spies," the fox explained. "It was originally used to guard portals, gates or any other kind of entrance." A flower grew in Kurama's hand. It was bright blue with red edges on the petals. In the center was some kind of smooth, flat mirror.

"So, what does it do?" Kuwabara asked.

"All of the leaves on the house," Kurama explained, "act like security cameras. With this flower I can see through any leaf of the plant." He touched the flat part of the flower, and his finger acted almost as a computer mouse, allowing him to scroll through the images of the house. They were able to see into every corner of every room of the house along with every possible angle from the outside.

"Clever!" Yusuke exclaimed his worries from earlier completely gone.

"With this we can watch all of them at once. If they leave we can watch them personally, but they can't all be out of there houses and in different places at once." Botan pointed out.

"Wait a minuet." Kuwabara said, turning to Kurama. "You want to explain to me how no one is going to notice this." He pointed to the house.

"Only the people involved in placing the plant can see it. To every one else it is virtually unnoticeable. Others can't even feel it." Kurama explained to him with a text book definition.

"Soooo, our problems are solved?" Yusuke asked.

"Yes."

"Why are we waiting around here then?" Kuwabara asked. "Let's get to work and put up these plant thingies at all the other houses." He shot his fist in the air as he flew off with the rest of the group to go put up the plants.

"I'm home!" Jamie shouted as she came through the door.

"Hi honey, oh your Monday night Karate class has been moved to Tuesday," her mom called back. Oh yeah, she thought, Sensei and Shihan went away, I'd forgotten.

"Ok," she said as she stepped into the kitchen so that her mom knew she'd heard her. "I'm going up stairs to do my homework, call me when dinner is ready." Then just as she said, she went up stairs.

The next day of school was the same as the first. Classes, lunch, more classes, and last but not least, art. The Reiki Tantei were bored out of their minds, but far be it from them to actually complain about it. It wasn't often that they got time off. After school they would finally get to see the rest of the targets because Jamie had Karate.

"Hurry up, are you ready yet. Jamie's mom yelled as she ran around the house looking remarkably like a chicken with its head cut off. Jamie chuckled to herself at this thought. She was sitting by the door, ready to go, dressed in her training uniform, as she had been for the last ten minutes. Her uniform was a white gi and tied around her waist was one of her most prized possessions, her black belt. It was made of course silk and had her name sewn into it, in Japanese, in gold thread.

"Yes I'm ready, now would you come on I'm going to be late."

"Well if you don't want to be late, you should be more organized and get ready sooner," her mom said in a matter-of-fact tone, and then headed for the door. Jamie had been expecting this comment and knew it was better not to argue the point.

"Shame, shame, shame Jamie, you're late!" Jessica yelled as she frolicked towards the girl. (Yes, frolicked.)

"Hi Jessica," Jamie managed to say before the girl jumped on her.

"She's not really late, class is starting late, so she's fine," Erika pointed out.

"Jessica, get off Jamie. I don't think she likes you hanging on her like that," Erika's sister Stephanie scolded, but she wasn't really mad, it was just their way of teasing.

"Oh, she's just being a difficult lesbian today." Jessica said in a disturbing voice that made you fear for your virtue.

"I'm not…whatever." Jamie had long sense given up trying to argue with Jessica that she was not her lesbian partner. Besides, she did it to everyone, and Jessica was only playing around. She hoped.

"Guess who's here," Erika said in a quick change of topic. "Sam!"

"Sam!" Jamie yelled as she ran over and glomped the girl, just noticing her for the first time. "What are you doing back from college already?"

"Yeah," Sam explained. "I switched over to a local school, so I don't start for a few more weeks."

"Why did you switch," Jamie asked, finally letting the girl go. "You were going to one of the best schools in the state."

"I don't know…I just wanted to." Sam was at a complete loss of words to explain.

"Line up!" Sensei called at that moment for the start of class, and the conversation was immediately dropped.

The Reiki Tantei had split up and now Kurama and Yusuke were hovering over the class watching the girls socialize. "Are these the other people we have to watch?" The answer was obvious but Yusuke couldn't help but ask.

"Yes." Once again Kurama had his trusty list out. "There are the two boys at the school, but all the rest are girls. The oldest looking one with dark brown hair, red highlights and red bangs is Sam." The girl had a very quiet demeanor but once you got to know her she was really quite pleasant. Being around her you felt energized yet relaxed at the same time. "There are the two sisters, see the girls with shoulder length cornflower blond hair and blue eyes. The taller one is Stephanie but she is actually the younger one, and the other sister is named Erika." These girls usually got mistaken for twins, even though one was a year older then the other, but in all reality they basically were. They were very close and very intone to each other. "And last but not least there is Jessica. She's the girl with the waist length hair that's poker strait and dirty blond." Jessica was thin and basically figureless. One of the group's biggest jokes was not being able to tell her gender. Yusuke, who had stared blankly at Kurama through his entire explanation, was silent for a few moments before speaking again.

"Why are there only two boys?" He didn't expect Kurama to actually know the answer and was a little shocked when the fox didn't even hesitate with an explanation.

"For some reason girls seem to have wave lengths that are more in tune to each other, and connect better than guy's do." A very long and uncomfortable silence followed this.

"Kurama, why…why do you know so much about these experiments? Or do I really want to know?"

"Oh…experience. This isn't the first time I've been involved with this kind of thing."

"Involved how?"

"When I was Youko Kurama I had dealings with labs that did experiments like this so it was hard not to learn about them. I actually had a lot of offers to help with the tests themselves."

"Did you ever take any of the offers?" Yusuke was really regretting this answer.

"No, doing these kinds of things to humans never appealed to me but….I did take one job. It wasn't really my fault, I didn't know. Well I knew about the experiments but I didn't know exactly what they were doing, and the offer was way too good to refuse." Kurama turned to look at Yusuke who was just staring at him, looking very lost.

"I think you lost me," Yusuke replied.

"Maybe I should start from the beginning."

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