Silverwing013: hey, hey, hey! I formally apologize. I haven't updated nearly as much as I would have liked. We've been busy around here. Ah…heehee….me and my sister have bad timing and she winded up with crutches as of late. Yu Yu Hakusho, as always, does not belong to me. The credentials of all characters made up by me go to me as ya'll know.


"Ma…. Da…." Mikko took her time walking down the sidewalk.

Sadness filled her up quickly before being flooded over with killing edge anger.

What she would give to have something to take her emotions out on right now. They were darn right frustrating her, making her head hurt.

She blinked as a soccer ball bounced past her feet, two young girls around six running after with loud voices. She resisted the urge to reach down, pick up the ball, and break it. Why she had the urge to…not a clue. She just felt this extreme anger she needed to vent out onto the world. She didn't feel…stable. The wind picked up its fierceness around her.

I should really go to the park, she thought. I don't want to really hurt anyone. Yes I do, another voice argued back at her in her mind. All this Forbidden doggy doo-doo going on around her was insane and had caused the whole problem. Was there anyway to set the dog poop on fire and toss the remains into a metal trash bin? If so, Mikko wanted to know.

She spotted a small pebbly rock laying in a crack along the sidewalk, rearing back a leg to kick it as far as possible.

The wind picked up on the rock without her telling it, blowing the rock faster and she watched it fly closer toward a window along the street with morbid curiosity.

I shouldn't break a window over this! A voice cried out loud inside her mind.

The rock slowed down as the wind attempted to stop it from approaching the glass window.

Crack. A circle spawned around the area from where the rock hit it, a few cracks twisting toward the outer area of the window. Mikko starred at it.

Amazing, she thought. What one little idiotic rock can do.

She stomped angrily down the sidewalk toward the park, determined that if she found the person who coined the word 'Forbidden', they'd be in a terror worse than the deepest hellfire.


Kuanja grinned as he chased after the female running from him, jumping over a human's suitcase easily. Moving prey. Hands shot out at him as he ran by, him slipping by easily.

"You didn't have to be difficult you know!" The female panted as she continued running down the street, glancing back with her large pink eyes. Kuanja grinned at her as she looked back at him, the female gulping as she kept running. She pulled out a compact from the folds of her clothes, opening it up. "No, you don't!" Kuanja raced forward as more hands reached for him in the walking mass of humans. Easily snagging the blue haired female in distress, Kuanja pulled her into his arms in a hug from behind. She thrashed in his hold. "Now, now," he easily walked toward a park where humans weren't so prominent in the area. "Come on, your such a pretty spirit world faerie... Calm down, I'm not--"

"Let go of me! Let go of me!"

Kuanja grinned. "I'm not about to do that. Haru went against us and I'll be damned if that bastard will keep those powers he stole from Akuna. Now give me that oar of yours bi--ah! You sonnuva--" Kuanja whipped around from the female hitting him to see the two boys from earlier that had interrupted Akuna from getting the red head's power. "You two!"

"YOU BASTARD!" The one with the green clothing on rushed forward at Kuanja.

Kuanja clutched onto his prize tighter as the female shrieked. "Too slow!" Kuanja roared at the teenager, stepping to the side, carefully leaving his foot out for tripping purposes. The purpose failed as the teen jumped up, spinning around in mid-air for a punch to Kuanja's face. Kuanja put the female up before his face as a shield, the punch being pulled back with the scream of "Damn you!" The hand opened up from its fist, using the female's head as a way to flip over the two, kicking Kuanja square in the back to send the three horned demon flying.

Yusuke clenched his fists as he glared the demon down, checking to his right side to see if Botan was all right, finding Kuwabara was helping her up. "Now," he turned threateningly on Kuanja, his brown eyes ablaze. "You've taken something that belongs to a couple of my friends. And I don't deal well when people mess with my friends. You see, I get angry. So get your busted ass over here and give those powers back!"

Kuanja simply rustled his hair slightly as Yusuke yelled at him. "No, I don't think so human." Kuanja was suddenly all serious, standing stiffly to the spot before Yusuke. A slight breeze rustled up as the tension grew before them before dying back down. Yusuke let out a grin at the demon.

"I like bastards like you," Yusuke stated.

Kuanja stood, not moving the slightest before cocking his head slightly. He crouched down close to the ground, squatting back on his haunches, a hand placed on the earth's soil to keep balance. "That's right," he slowly smirked. "I'm a bastard. Most retarded humans don't like that...So what about this 'bastard' do you like?"

Yusuke scowled at Kuanja. "Because you sick gay demon bastard...I'M FREE TO PUMMEL YOUR GUTS ON PURE HATRED!"

"Go Yusuke!" Botan cheered as Yusuke sprinted at the crouched Kuanja.

Kuanja still sat on his haunches, waiting still as Yusuke ran towards him, suddenly grinning up at Yusuke's confused face as the fist flew towards him. Kuanja's hand flew up on quick reflexes to catch Yusuke's fist mid-punch. Yusuke's mouth opened up in shock. Thick ice flooded up past his elbow, past his shoulder, down across his chest, flying down to his feet in freezing them solidly to the ground, icing over his other arm quickly as well, leaving only Yusuke's head untouched. Kuanja stood up, silently regarding the frozen Yusuke. "Even though your fighting skills are pitiful, I applaud you on having such worthwhile friends. Freezing one's enemies isn't quite like any other power I've possessed."

Yusuke's teeth chattered from the freezing temperature his body was now in contact with. "Y-y-you bastard!"

Kuanja pulled up a hand to inspect his fingernails with Yusuke's words, blowing off the bitter cold that bit at the tips of his fingers.

"Yes," Kuanja toned dryly, "we've already covered the bastard bit. Are humans really so simple minded?"

"Sha-sha-shut up!"

Kuanja paid no mind to the "Popsicle" Yusuke yelling his head off at him, arching his head to look over his shoulder at Botan whose mouth was open in shock. He turned his body to fully face the stunned faire, completely ignoring the other two beside her as he walked straight for her. Botan gave a shriek and ducked behind Jin, after giving wild glances between the two males beside her for her choices. Kuanja smirked at her actions. "Please, if he's the leader around here, than these two's energies are nothing but child's play. It'd be much faster if you just surrender now instead of seeing more of your captain's guards falling into itty...bitty...slices of ice shards before your very eyes."

Kuwabara's sword flashed into the playing field as he stepped bravely before the approaching demon, beating Jin in doing so. "It is honorless the way you treat a lady. You shall pay Kuanja for what you have done to my girl." Kuwabara glared evenly at the three-horned demon as Kuanja slowed to a stop before the tall copper head.

He starred into the pits of Kuwabara's eyes, eyeing the teen before him with some apprehension. "How did you place yourself so low, even among humans?"

"Honor bound is the way to a man's fortitude, protecting those close to him. Love. I doubt a demon like you could understand. You have taken my Yukina's precious powers and in doing so, you have crossed my castle gates without permission. Die!" Kuwabara rang his spirit sword down upon the demon before him, slicing across his chest with accurate aim and precision.

Kuanja jumped back, blood streaming out where the sword hit his persona. "I was wrong before," he spat out. "You aren't Nekoyami after all!" Kuanja rushed forward and Kuwabara dodged the fist with eyes open in terror at the speed. Kuwabara quickly blessed his luck, and then blessed his newly heightened sixth sense for the first time since it surpassed his sister's.

Raising the spirit sword to threaten as best he could, Kuwabara spoke evenly at the blue haired demon. "Never . . . mention . . . that bastard cat's name . . . in . . . my . . . presence. Time will not take back what that fluff ball did to my family or me! And as his henchmen . . . I doubt you're any better Kuanja!"

The spirit sword launched into a barrage of attacks, Kuanja ducking each stroke aimed at him. He stepped backward on each swing of the sword, Kuwabara backing the dodging demon to a tree. Kuwabara saw him cornered, raising his spirit sword upwards for a final downward swing, yelling as he gave a powerful swing down. "KEAHHHHH!" The sword flashed down inside the demon's body, slicing a powerful cut across the width of Kuanja's body. Panting, Kuwabara extinguished the spirit sword, giving a pitiful glance at the unmoving body. "And when I figure out how to banish your boss, the same fate will reach him as did one of his lackeys," Kuwabara whispered the promise to himself. Kuwabara turned back to the others with a dead pan look on his face, giving out a traditional fool's grin as he yelled at their stunned looks aimed at him. "ONE DOWN! ONE TO GO!"

"Ge--jezz-us...Kuwabara... He d-didn't even try to fight y-you. If t-that's messing around with your new sixth sense thing, I may have t-to punch it down to size," Yusuke grinned at the tall teen. "Now, will someone GET ME OUT OF THIS FREEZER BEFORE I GET FROST BITE!

"O' course Urameshi!" Jin bounced forward from standing in front of Botan before stopping suddenly. Both he and Kuwabara whipped around to see that Kuanja's body no longer lay where it used to be but instead there was a puddle of water. "YA! I'ave seen this one I have! He's gone and made water clones of 'imself!" Kuwabara eyed the water puddle by the tree, Botan danced around nervously where she stood before dashing behind Jin once again.

"Yo, be real nice if I could see this myself since I can't crane my neck that far anymore!" Yusuke yelled at the trio surrounding him. They paid no mind to him, as they looked outward in their search for Kuanja. And then... "Hey bastard! Whadda doing sulking behind me? Just because my head can't move, doesn't mean I can't see you back there!"

The group turned at Yusuke's words, Kuanja giving up the hiding space behind Yusuke's frozen body to make a grab on Botan again. Kuanja clung onto the kicking Botan as Jin and Kuwabara dived down on top of him to separate the Forbidden Hunter from Botan as to stop him from taking her spiritual powers as a guide to the Spirit World.

"Oy Kuanja! Let Botan go!"

"Bastard! First he takes Yukina's powers and now he's stealing from another lady!"

"Come on Kuwabara! You can do better than that! Come on Jin! Kick this guy's ass!"

"AAAAHHHHHHHH! WILL YOU PEOPLE LET ME GO?"

"Do you humans ever shut up?"

Kuanja used the thick ice surrounding Yusuke to push himself away from the fray with a kick of a foot, dragging the kicking and punching Botan behind him still screaming at everyone to let her go. Kuwabara launched forward to grab one of Botan's legs; stopping Kuanja's attempt to leave with her, Jin jumped up to grab the other leg as well. Kuanja gave a limb tearing pull as he yanked Botan in his direction.

"AAAAAHHHHHH! QUIT PLAYING TUG OF WAR! LET GO OF ME!"

"Gladly, your blowing out my eardrums as it is!" Kuanja let go as Jin and Kuwabara gave a huge tug.

The three flew backwards, Botan landing on top of Kuwabara roughly.

"Sorry Kuwabara!" She rang out the apology cheerily as she hopped off of the teen mumbling curses at the demon below her. Botan suddenly yelped after she stood up, a blur zipping past to snatch her away. The blur smirked at her. "Gah'! Kuanja!"

He sniffed her face lightly. "Yeah?" He smirked evilly at her. "You reek of the child king…. Perfect. Ah!" He skidded to a stop in front of a girl standing in shock on the sidewalk.

"Autumn Breeze!" Botan screeched out loud as she noticed whom it was standing there.

Icy blue eyes snapped over to Botan's momentarily before latching back onto Kuanja's. Everything about her body movement was tense with anger, hair blowing more the longer she gazed upon the demon in front of her holding Botan. Her hands clenched open and shut as if she couldn't decide how to have them or trying to hold back what she wanted to physically do to him, her jaw clamped tightly as she opened it formidably.

"Let. Botan. Go."

Kuanja's arm snatched out to snag the front of the Forbidden's shirt. "And just why should I do that Forbidden Child? Doubtless you don't remember, but I'm searching for our third member up in Spirit World. This is my first chance to reach Spirit World in a long time for that bastard Haru."

"Haru?" The girl's face looked upon Kuanja in shocked curiosity before her face reddened up in anger slowly from the neck up.

Kuanja leered down at her, breathing right on her face. "You lost your memory about him, don't redden your face trying to get it back."

"Where's Hiei?" Botan asked quickly, figuring that bondage would help return any memory to come faster and safer, in hope of any memory that may help Yusuke and Kuwabara's fight against the Forbidden Hunters.

A dark shadow covered Mikko's eyes as they twitched, anger clearly written on her face as she finally snapped.

Fwack! She slapped the Forbidden Hunter clear across his face.

Whack! A hand was brought down on his arm holding Botan.

Bam! Kuanja flew down onto the dirt of the park.

Botan sweat dropped as Mikko jumped forward, up into the air with aid from the wind to land down on top the unfortunate plug for her anger. Stomp, stomp, stomp!

Kick! The wind blew her up, speeding quickly across to where he lay, booting his body toward the trees.

Crash!

Mikko rubbed her hand sorely, closing her eyes shut. "One more word…. If I hear one more word about or from anyone with the title 'Forbidden'…. Or even see one hair follicle from them…. I swear." Opening her eyes back open, she leaned down to help Botan up. "Hey, are you okay Botan?"

Botan face faulted head over heels. "What! You go ballistic and then ask ME if I'm okay?"

She laughed shortly at Botan, scratching her head as the normally bubbly grim reaper stood up again. "Don't bring up his name again…I was worried about the wind letting me completely lose it there and take my anger out on a friend as well." She turned back to Kuanja lying under the snapped and cracked trunk of a tree, a grim line quickly overtaking her face again. Botan blinked at the half-Goddess. "Great," Mikko muttered angrily as Kuanja popped from view. "Now how am I supposed to vent the rest of these old feelings?"

"My god Urameshi….no wonder Shrimpy picked her….look at HER temper! It's worse than Keiko's!" Kuwabara pointed wildly up at the small girl from his seat from where he fell.

A vein pulsed on Mikko's forehead.

Several short seconds later, Yusuke shook his head as much as the ice would let him, gazing at the teen pinned up to the tree with some of Mikko's wind forks, some bruises where she took out some more anger out upon his face. "Idiot. Reminder to self, Hiei picks out some strong females. …Shit!"

Bash! Mikko hit the top of Yusuke's head, eyebrow twitching.

"You called him the idiot…." She muttered angrily. "When you're the one who brought up THE idiot's name in front of my face." Bash!

Jin laughed at his little sister's antics, ears wiggling in a small glee as she glanced over at him, eyes warning him of what she might do. She remembered him. Jin knew well enough to leave her be after the memory of mother and father dying had been returned to her unlike the other two members of the Urameshi Team. When Mikko Songs held anger against someone, you took her words seriously for once in her life. That much hadn't changed about her.

Botan laughed nervously as Mikko simply plopped herself onto the ground, leaning up against Yusuke for a good headrest. "Bit cold…but whom am I to complain…."

"Look who's talking!" Yusuke screamed down at the resting female leaning on him. "Bit cold? Who's the one frozen like a Blueberry flavored Popsicle here?"

"Uhhhhh," came Kuwabara's confused thinking voice. "Urameshi, you're wearing green. Shouldn't it be Lime flavored?"

Yusuke threw Kuwabara a dark look. "Shut up Kuwabara!"


"Puu….." A voice muttered warily in Keiko's room as the girl paused in her studying to look up at the Spirit Beast shivering on her bed. Sighing, she laid down her number 2 pencil, getting up to have a look at the inner spirit of the world's 'Toughest Punk'.

"Puu. Your freezing," she looked at the penguin-like bird, noticing that the bird only moved its eyes and mouth. "What has Yusuke gotten himself into now?"

"Puu…." The bird said sadly with some edge. Obviously it was offended that he was to blame for Yusuke's new trouble.

"Probably that new mission," Keiko said with dull eyes. "Mission after mission after mission. I wonder when it will end."

"Puu!" Said the bird, glaring up at Keiko then at the half of the body it couldn't move.

She smiled at it. "Let's stick you in some warm water Puu."


Ring! Ring! Ring!

Shizuru tapped her foot, waiting for the person on the other end to pick up. "Come on cousin…. You can't always keep prattling on that our phones are too far away…. I saw you just the other day…. Pick up!"

Ring! Ring! Rin-"Hello cousin dearest! And how is the weather ove--"

Yukina blinked at the loud voice emitting from the phone line, able to hear the voice loud and clear from her vantage point of lying on the Kuwabara couch with several bags of ice nearby as well as around her.

"Jeter," Shizuru snapped at the line, stopping her younger cousin from prattling on.

The cousin sulked on the other end as his voice went down to regular tones. "…I hate that name."

"Deal with it. Now I need to—"

"I know," the voice cut her off. "Talk about your little baby brother. How is it you think that little spirit upgrade of his didn't come to my attention Shizuru?"

"Heh. Same old meddling Jeter. Remember your first dream vision?"

"Don't say that name," the voice came back at her before answering the question. "And yeah, how could I forget? Pity I couldn't stop the first two deaths from happening though…. Saved you however from Kazu-K's 'little' kitty cat problemo." The voice paused. "You want to know how I did that. Or, Kazu-K does."

Shizuru smiled wryly. Intuitive as ever, that little migraine…. "Yes, much appreciated. Now get on with it Jeter."

"I'll do it on two conditions. One, never call me by my real name again. Two, don't tell anyone about our relation. Believe me. That information staying hidden will do me some real good in a few months up above. Oh yeah and three, you're still not going to go back on your word from when we were kids. Are you?"

"No. I won't tell anyone about how you've been using your sixth sense the past however many years," Shizuru said quickly as she tapped her fingernails on the wall nearby. "Hurry up, there isn't much time."

Jeter sighed on the other line. "Never is, as always with you guys. Alright…."


Zam! Zam! Scott pressed at the buttons on the game controller from his spot on the couch.

Dani looked at her brother in disgust. Did this kid go anywhere? Did he have any friends? God knows that Dani wanted to get out of the house with Ellie or even 'Eddie'. She'd even take Kyle just to escape the apartment building. Of course she'd dump him the minute she could, but that was beside the point. "Did you finish your homework, Scott?"

Zam! Zap! "I ask the questions…." Scott muttered, his mind mostly on the game at hand.

Dani raised an eyebrow at him. "…My brother has no life," she claimed standing up from the couch.

"And where are you going?" Scott asked sharply as he blasted another shot on the game, pausing it to look up at his sister's guilty face.

"Out."

"Out my butt. You're grounded and mom never grounds anyone, so you're in real trouble. So, where are you going?"

Dani grinned. He was wasting his questions…on this of all things. Mmm…lets see…. That was question six already…. "I told you I'm going out."

"Really…May I ask where too then?"

She grinned at the younger brother who had just backed himself up into a corner on this subject. She could answer, "No," and still have answered that question. In fact…she just did answer no to him. Hee hee, Dani's mind thought, laughing in her head at her younger brother.

"I earned my questions and deserve my ans--!"

Knock, knock!

"—YAY! I'M FREE!" Dani raced over to the door, yanking it open to revel a grinning girl with straight long light brown hair wearing her street clothes of jeans, tennis shoes, t-shirt, and denim jacket with a fresh bottle of Dr Pepper in her hands. Dani sweat dropped at the girl, or more precisely, the Dr Pepper. "SAVE ME! EDDIE HAS BROUGHT THE DR PEPPER OF DOOM!"

"Well…I was going to be nice and say hello but you have gone too far…." The girl hugged the bottle, pressing it to her chest, turning so that the bottle could not be seen by Dani as the girl in question was running to hid behind her younger brother, and then Eddie glared at Dani from the open door.

Scott stood up, walking away.

"WHERE ARE YOU GOING?" Dani screeched. "YOU CAN'T LEAVE ME ALONE WITH HER AND HER INSANE DR PEPPER!"

"Watch me," Scott replied leaving the room. A barely audible mutter flouted from the direction he had left in, "Psycho sister and her crazy friends."

The girl called Eddie beamed at Dani who beamed back. "Teeeee! So fun messing wit people's noggins! Although certain people really shouldn't insult my favorite drink," she scowled at Dani for a good measure, causing Dani to sweat drop slightly over this girl's favorite soda addiction. Eddie grinned again, plopping down onto the couch only to crack open the bottle and take a swig.

"Ahhh…. That one tastes good…."

"…But it's Dr Pepper…again. Doesn't it all taste the same?" Dani asked.

Eddie blinked up at Dani.

"It…is…Dr…Pepper," she said slowly as if talking to a young child about the concept of a problem in calculus. "OH YEAH!" Eddie turned to face the direction Scott left. "HEY MONKEY BOY!"

A few seconds came the unwilling answer of, "…Yeah?"

"HOW'S THAT CHIN YOU SHOT?"

"Fine! Quit asking!" Came Scott's reply. Eddie grinned.

"Awww…. It's not often you hear about a boy shooting himself in the chin with his BB gun!" Eddie smiled up at Dani. "Anyway, Dr Pepper is good for you Kit. I don't drink tea and you don't see me skipping classes. Drink Dr Pepper, maybe you and Ellie wouldn't have that problem."

Dani smiled slightly at the nickname of 'Kit'. Kurama was the real kitsune though. Pity she wasn't born as one…. Foxes were so cool! But…soda was near the bottom of her list. "Sorry, no. You know I hate soda."

Eddie shrugged, taking another drink before recapping her Dr Pepper. She then leaned forward, grinning madly.

"Guess what!"

"I don't know. What?" Dani replied to Eddie's antics.

Eddie pouted. "Com'on, guess here D-chan!"

"Don't call me that. Just tell me Stephanie."

"No! Guess D-chan!"

"Steph!"

"D-chan!"

"Stephanie…."

"D-chan!"

"…"

"D-chan!"

"…" Eddie grinned.

"Com'on Kit. This one deals with you dir-rect-ly…." Eddie sang out the last word.

"Just tell me straight out." Eddie frowned playfully, secrets written well across that face of hers.

"You know better than anyone I don't do that. Guess!"

"…Your little brother died?"

That one earned the girl to lean back in the couch, crossing her arms in a pout. "I wish…."

"Your family is going back over to America?"

"No!" Eddie said rather resentfully at Dani. "How would that be good?"

"…Many reasons I could name off at the moment," Dani replied with a tap to her chin as she looked down upon her rather hyped up friend.

"Grrr…. Fine." Eddie whipped out her cell phone muttering under her breath. "I can't believe I saved this number…. Hee! I save everyone's number!" She put the phone up to her ear, listening to it ring. "One ring…two ring…three ring…four. D-chan, get your butt over here! Quick! Ya gotta listen!"

Dani sighed but hurried over to listen to the end of the fourth ring. And then a male voice came up from out of the cell phone.

"Hey, this is Kyle. If you want to leave a message, leave it at 1-563-608-2969 after Friday afternoon this week. This phone will not be used after that time. BEEP!"

Dani starred at the cell phone for a minute in utter silence. Eddie starred up at her expectantly, with a grin growing on her face.

"Okay, first off. Why do you have Kyle's number? And second, what is the point of…this?" She peered down questionably as Eddie attacked the cell phone again; punching in the number Kyle had said to contact him at.

"Hello. Tato residence. Kenji speaking."

"Hey! I was wondering if Kyle is there!" Eddie grinned up at Dani as her friend frantically mouthed the word 'NO!'

"No. Kyle isn't going to be here until Friday. Who is this?"

"Stephanie! I'm from Kyle's school here! You know…. Another Am. Trans?"

"Oh your part of that group. Okay. I'm sorry, Kyle isn't moving here until this weekend. But if you want to help move the stuff, you can head right on over. We'd be glad to have someone he's a friend with from the American transfers he moved over to Japan with in the first place."

"Eh, I get along with him fair enough."

"Yes, I understand. Kyle is a bit…intense…with the way his family raised him up. Do you know if his younger sister has changed her mind yet?"

"No, I really don't. But hey, I got to get going!"

Kenji laughed on the other line. "Alright, I'll let you go. Hope to see you Friday Stephanie. And as you American's say it…(('oodbye))."

Eddie laughed. "Close enough. Goodbye too you to Mr. Tato."

Eddie turned the cell phone off, peering up at Dani with a grin. Dani stood there in shock, starring at Eddie's cell phone.

"Now do you get it Kit?"

Dani just starred at open air for a while, mouth open.

"Gimme a second…."

She went wandering off toward the kitchen, taking a glass out of the cupboard and filled it up. Raising it up to her mouth, she stopped and placed it down with a clunk.

"YES! NO MORE KYLE! I'M FREE! FREE AT LAST!"

Eddie snickered as Dani ripped out of the apartment building screaming at the top of her lungs. Scott raced back inside the living room.

"Kyle is leaving?" He asked Eddie sitting on the couch. Eddie leaned back and took a sip of Dr Pepper, listening to Dani's screaming ring up and down the hallway of the apartment complex.

"Listen for yourself monkey boy," she answered with a grin.

"NO MORE STALKER BOY! NO MORE STALKER BOY! HEY MRS. SMITH! GUESS WHAT! NO MORE STALKER BOY! HOW DO YOU DO MR. GOODMAN! I HOPE YOUR DAY IS AS GOOD AS MINE! NO MORE STALKER BOY! HA! I'M FREE! FREE AT LAST! FREE AT LAST!"

The screaming stopped for a mere second before Dani spoke again. "Hello mother dearest. Guess what I learned today? NO MORE KYLE!"


"I'm soooo cold!"

The yell went ignored as Yusuke glared at the people around him. Botan had flown back up to Koenma ages ago while Mikko had fallen asleep against him, making small sounds of discomfort in her sleep every now and then. Kuwabara had been released down from the wind forks keeping him up against the tree about the moment the small group realized that Mikko had fallen asleep. He was now spending his time pacing back and forth, trying to sense Kuanja or Akuna but wasn't able to get an accurate sense on either one, so he was just pacing. Jin was spending his time between checking to see if his sister was sleeping well and balancing on Yusuke's extended frozen fist with various limbs.

"Doesn't anyone care about my body heat and health? I am the leader of this team after all!"

Kuwabara paused in his pacing, to glance over at Yusuke for a slight moment before going back to pacing. Jin grinned down at Yusuke as he kept balance upside down with a single finger upon Yusuke's fist.

"I'd care Urameshi, but I'd probably jus' make it more cold with me wind! Same for Mikko Songs as well! And I bet ya don't want Kuwabara to be a choppin' at ya!" Jin's ears wiggled. "Besides, ya've survived worse, haven't ya!"

"But I'm coooooooold! Don't you have any idea, Jin, on how cold it is inside this ice? I feel like I'm a fly in the ice cube prank on King Enma!"

Jin burst out laughing, flipping over to place his feet on his balancing point, then looked down at Mikko right side up to see that her head had fallen off to the side of Yusuke's frozen leg, facing away from him.

"Hey Urameshi!" Kuwabara called out with a grin. "Your in luck! Hiei isn't far from here! I'll go grab the runt so he can unfreeze you!" And with that, Kuwabara went running off out of the park yelling out one of the many nicknames he has given Hiei.

Jin looked down at Yusuke. "Ya don't think dat Hiei would come now would ya?"

Yusuke stopped in thought for a while. "Yeah, I think he would. He may dislike Kuwabara…heck they both hate each other! But once Hiei lets it known that your an ally, he can be pretty damn loyal."

Jin balanced easily upon Yusuke's fist with the tip top of his one foot's big toe before letting the rest help balance his body weight. "Then I suppose Mikko Songs is in the clear accordin' ta ya?"

Yusuke blinked. "Uh…hee hee….kinda forgot she was there. I don't feel anything anymore really…kinda numb all over the place…. Lets hope she's in the clear Jin because here comes Hiei."

Jin grinned, ears wiggling madly as he glanced between Yusuke and Kuwabara, who was pointlessly shoving Hiei in the path to go. Needless to say, Hiei looked pissed off. "Fun!" Jin beamed, flipping back upside down to balance on top his hand. Using Yusuke's fist he flipped over dashing over to Hiei approaching Yusuke with disgust written on his face at seeing his sister's ice powers being used in such a way. It seemed that Hiei hadn't spotted Mikko resting on the other side of Yusuke yet. Jin simply ran right on up to Hiei, throwing his arms around him into a great big bear hug.

"Brother!"

Yusuke and Kuwabara burst out laughing at Jin antics and the look upon Hiei's face. Hiei shoved the wind master away. "I'm not your god damned brother!" Hiei snapped at Jin.

Jin peered down at him. "Weren't cha a wee bit shorter last time I'd a saw ya? Growth spurt eh brother?"

Hiei glared up at Jin and it was now the moment that the others realized that Hiei didn't have to look up as far to glare at people. Kuwabara leaned over Hiei, still towering over him.

"Hey, the spiky haired runt is taller!" Kuwabara said in shock. He poked at Hiei. "Small still, but the shrimp boat is taller!"

"Do you mind?" Hiei grabbed at Kuwabara's poking hand, annoyed.

Kuwabara grinned. "Same old runt. Once a runt, always a runt!"

"Once a fool, always a fool!" Hiei snapped back, turning away from Kuwabara. He rubbed at his forehead a bit, not paying to much mind to Kuwabara's reply.

"Hey Hiei…?" Yusuke asked cautiously. "Are you taller from missing your third eye?"

Hiei's two crimson eyes immediately snapped to attention to Yusuke, quickly removing his hand from the forehead area. "What makes you think that my Jagan eye is missing detective?"

Yusuke looked straight back at Hiei. "Because we were the ones that got you down Hiei. Kurama noticed it right off the bat. I personally don't see how he knew to look there, but we know…."

"That's it!" Kuwabara crowed out and he practically, in fact, did prance around in glee. "Haaa, ha!"

"Are you alright Kuwabara? I mean up in that half pea brain sized brain you got up there?" Yusuke asked when seeing Kuwabara's prancing.

Kuwabara grinned over at Hiei, Yusuke, and Jin. "Akuna and Kuanja don't know diddaly squat about demon world history cause they're human, technically! They'd only know more about Human World and a tad bit about Spirit World! They know only Demon World about what they have personally seen there with their own eyes!"

"And what is your point Kuwabara?" Yusuke asked.

"Hiei is stronger than before! Stronger than when he had the third eye thing! Kuanja didn't have it on his forehead, so Akuna must have it!"

Hiei growled and narrowed his eyes at Kuwabara as the tall teen continued.

"Akuna is the one in charge and does the most damage, so taking in the Jagan eye's power actually makes her weaker while it made Hiei stronger! And with them both being power drainers, they rely more on their own or stolen power than anything else!" Kuwabara paused in his rant to grin proudly at the others, dawning comprehension flashing through their faces. "But we don't rely completely on our power and this puts them in a negative frame of reference! We can go in feeling positive about still having our experience and skills and Hiei being stronger than before while they wind downward from their own selfish need to have more power than their opponents!"

"Dat's right!" Jin said brightly, ears wiggling. "We can avenge me parents!"

"Avenge Hiei's stolen powers!" Yusuke yelled.

"Avenge Yukina…." Hiei muttered under his breath, as he looked at Kuwabara in a new light. He spoke louder so that the oaf could hear. "How did you get so smart oaf?"

"Yeah Kuwabara….I've been wondering that myself…." Yusuke wondered out loud.

"School! Something Urameshi doesn't do! Plus my sixth sense helped a bit…." Kuwabara cast his eyes away from Hiei.

"Hn?" Hiei asked curiously at Kuwabara's action.

"Kuwabara doesn't seem to like the fact that his sixth sense went up a few notches. It's stronger than Shizuru's now," Yusuke explained for Hiei.

Hiei raised his eyebrows. "Hn," he said in a more perked interest. "I see….the fool now has have some intelligence to handle his sixth sense."

"Cork it runt!" Kuwabara yelled at Hiei.

"Hn." Hiei turned to face Yusuke, gripping a hand around Yusuke's outstretched fist.

"Finally!" Yusuke shouted out. "Someone finally took pity on our team captain!"


Keiko picked up a shampoo bottle from the counter. "I guess I can always give Puu a good old fashioned bath while he stays in tub, warming up." She smiled briefly.

"Puuuuuuuu!"

She turned around to the bathtub. "Alright Puu!" She said with a smile. She opened her eyes and looked down at Puu.

"AHH! PUU! YOU'RE ON FIRE! HOW ARE YOU ON FIRE! IN WATER!"


Silverwing013: meh'! a humor chappie, but still has the serious piece….Mikko isn't well. Shoulda put this sucker in Forbidden MiniStories….ah well.

HF6- meh'! Hiei…short, tall…still Hiei as Kuwabara oh so kindly pointed out. And we all know how you luv Yusuke being frozen.

Ice dragon girl- sorry about the slow update…. But I hope this chappie pleases ya!

Animegal- thank ya, thank ya, thank ya! Most people hate Kuwabara and tend to leave that factor out…I'm sorry, I believe that the sixth strength is a very strong factor in life so he's being left in my storyline. (I believe the 'gang' is every one…sorry for the ones whom disagree) oh, and my writing style that you have mentioned. I've taken plenty of classes to practice up on writing up at school since this sucker was started. Chappies 1-5 were written back in Sept 2004….way before I posted it up on fanfiction and started it up again as you may notice the day i posted The Forbidden Hunters up.

Kiwadoi- I updated. -chee-na!-

Dark rises- thanks for the lemon drop and liking comment

Silverwing013: Next up…all matters up in spirit world…. The council members…Koenma…Botan…Jorge…King Enma…and a little bit of Haru…as well as Koenma's mother!