Do I really have to say it again; I don't own Yu Yu Hakusho

Ch.5

"Geese Kurama, sorry I brought it up."

"No, it's not you're fault, besides I've been thinking about this for awhile now." Kurama said; now back to his normal self. "It's this mission."

"What do you mean," Yusuke asked his friend.

"That girl, Jamie," he pointed to her. "She…She looks exactly like the girl I just told you about. I have to wonder if they're related in some way." Yusuke didn't really know how to respond to this, gut he had to try none the less.

"Maybe Koenma knows something about it. I mean he does handle the dead. I'll ask him next time I see him." There was an uncomfortable silence in which Kurama continued to watch the girls below them practicing basic blocks.

"So, do you think it was safe to leave Hiei and Kuwabara alone together?" Yusuke asked, desperately looking for something to lighten the mood.

"I'm sure they'll be fine." Kurama answered him. "Botan is with them and they're not stupid enough to do anything that would jeopardize the mission. Besides, in these spirit forms they can't really hurt each other, and we needed someone to watch over the others." By this time class was almost over and it wasn't until everyone had finished cleaning the mats (Sensei had to stand by the door so that no boys would try to sneak out and leave the girls with all the work, again) and they were getting ready to leave that either of them spoke again. Just as the girls were heading out the door, Kurama turned to Yusuke.

"Come on. We still need to put Guardian Spies on the remaining girl's houses."

"Ok, I'll contact the others and tell them to meet us at…the sister's house is closest, right?" Yusuke was glad that the atmosphere was starting to ease up between them.

"Erika and Stephanie, yes" Kurama answered him before they went off to meet the others. It was about midnight when the gang was floating above the city. The last of the Guardian Spies had been put up and now there was nothing to do. That is until Hiei brought up a disturbing fact.

"Kurama, did you feel that?" Kurama simply nodded.

"What does he mean?" Yusuke hated it when people were vague.

"A large amount of demonic power just entered the city," Kurama clarified. He took out the blue and red flower that acted like a screen for the Guardian Spies and saw how close the demons were. "But they only seem to be targeting a few of the houses. Yami's, Jamie's, Travis's, Jessica's, and Sam's, to be precise."

"Well what are we waiting for?" Kuwabara asked he was getting inpatient. Botan, you stay here, we'll take care of this."

"No," Hiei corrected him. "These demons are the lowest of the low; even she should be able to handle them. This makes one house for each of us."

"Ok," Yusuke said, taking charge. "I'll go to Travis's, Hiei go to Yami's, Kuwabara to Jessica's, Kurama to Sam's, and Botan to Jamie's." That was all it took for everyone to go get to work and go to their assigned places. When Kurama got to Sam's house he immediately saw about six or seven demons approaching the house.

"Abidas!" he yelled to return to his physical form and dropped to the ground, right in-between the approaching demons and the house. "You really think you're going to get in there," he warned as he flicked a rose out of his hair. "Rosewhip!" A long green vine appeared, covered in diamond hard thorns and a handle at one end. It was aimed right at the opposing demons. "Just try it," was his last warning. But instead of attacking, the demon, who seemed to be in charge of the group, held up an electronic devise. It pushed a button on the top and it started blinking, then they disappeared. Kurama took out his communication mirror and called Yusuke. "Yusuke we have a problem," he said once the boy appeared on the screen.

"I'll say we do, those damn demons just up and disappeared as soon as they saw me. The same thing happened to Hiei, Kuwabara, and Botan."

"Hey, is someone talking about me," Kuwabara's voice broke through. Kurama watched as the screen divided it's self into four separate images showing all the other members of the group.

"Kurama, you do realize what just happened?" Hiei asked.

"Yes" Kurama replied. "This will make things much more difficult."

"Will somebody explain to me what the hell's going on?" Yusuke exclaimed. Once again he was left out of the loop.

"We will. But let's meet up first." And at that Kurama clicked off his communication mirror.

An hour latter they were all sitting in a hotel room. The same room they had met Koenma in earlier to be exact. They were seated around a table, with Yusuke sitting at the head, and surprisingly no one was saying anything. That is until Yusuke spoke up.

"Ok, that's all the quiet staring I can take. Does anyone want to explain what's going on?" He looked from Hiei to Kurama, sense they were the only one's who seemed to know, but it was a moment before either of them answered.

"It simple," Hiei responded, "It was a test, and we just failed." The whole room shifted with uneasiness, they knew what had happened but were just too afraid to admit they'd messed up.

"The demons had no intention of taking the targets tonight. They simply showed up to see if anyone else would to protect them." Kurama didn't really need to explain but the talk helped fill the dead silence. However Botan was better at that and took over.

"I get it, now that they know we're here, they'll know how to plan an attack." She looked around the room, hopping for a response. When none came she was forced to ask the inevitable question. "But what in the world are we going to do now." Surprisingly it was Yusuke who answered her.

"That's easy," He said as he stood up. "We wait for whatever they're going to through at us and once there here we kick some ass!"

"Maybe we should talk to Koenma about getting back in those spirit forms," Kurama suggested, as everyone ignored Yusuke, as usual.

Three days latter it was Friday night. Jamie was hanging out with her karate friends, and suspiciously every other target was within three blocks from them. So, the team, who were back in their ghost forms, was all back together.

"Man this is boring!" Yusuke shouted for the hundredth time.

Indeed it was a slow night. There wasn't a cloud in the sky but the air was thick and heavy. It was night out, but the full moon mixed with all the stars, made it very easy to see. The group was lazing about waiting for something to happen. Kurama was playing with his vines, Hiei was occupying himself by caring for his sword, and Kuwabara was asleep. Although he looked quite peculiar sense he was upside-down with his feet pointing towards the sky. Botan was looking through the windows in the house until something caught her eye, and everyone rushed to her when she called to them.

"You guys might want to see this!" Kurama was the first to reach her but only a moment latter everyone else was crowding around the window, trying to see.

"What…what are they watching? Is that me!" Yusuke spoke first.

"I've heard about this, but I didn't think it was true," Kurama explained to no one in particular. "In America there's an Anime called Yu Yu Hakusho. It's about the adventures of the Reiki Tantei, starting with Yusuke dying and, so far, going up to us meeting the three demon gods." At this everyone started talking at once, up to the point where it was almost impossible to tell one statement from the other.

"Why was I not informed of this…"

"…Damn I look good on T.V…"

"If the wrong demons got their hands on this it could really put my mother in danger…" and so on.

A few hours latter, the girls got bored with watching Anime. (If that's possible) They all sat in the living room debating what to do next.

"We could just go to sleep."

"But I'm not tired at all."

"Neither am I." There was a long pause.

"We could walk to the park." Erika suggested.

"In the dark?" Sam asked.

"Why not in the dark?" Jamie defended.

"Fine let's just go." Stephanie decided.

"Can I go barefoot?" a voice called from another room. Everyone looked at each other.

"Yes Jessica, you can go barefoot!" They all answered.

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