Dreamers

A dark laugh fluttered in and out of the man's dreams, always followed by a lighter one, until they intertwined and became a single booming laugh, haunting him, chasing him through the realm of his subconscious. The man ran and ran, as fast as he could, yet could not shake the laughing voice. Finally, he was chased into a dead end, the laughter closed in on him, tender and mocking all at the same time. 'This is not who I am!' Thought the man, in a burst of clarity that was rare for a dream. 'I will fight!' He pulled out his katana and spun around, ready to fight, but he was instead transported out of the dead end, and was now falling in the pitch black darkness. As he fell, great white shapes flew by him, scenes of horrifying events, and the laughter became screaming. The man did the only thing he could do.

He woke up.

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With a start, Hiei awoke from the nightmare, not sure why it had seemed so horrible. It had been about laughter, how could he have thought it was scary! Him, the great and terrible Hiei! Pulling the covers over him, he rolled onto his side, snorted at his foolish dream-fright, and fell back into sleep. No dreams plagued him this time.

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Far and far away, two people dreamed of a small man, who had eyes that blazed with an inner fire, and with hair as cool as hell. He stood in their dreams, staring. Just... staring. Then, he drew his katana, and–

Akira Mysa woke up with a groan; the alarm clock, turned on as high as it could go so it would be sure to wake her, had fallen off the night stand and was invading her pillow space. Snatching it up, she flung it across the room, effectively turning it off. She was very tempted to just roll over in bed and go back to sleep, but today was too special for that. Today was her best friends' birthday, and Mysa had just spent way too much time and energy making sure it would be perfect for her to sleep right through it. She had even begged the boy her friend was crushing on to come, just so her friend could have a great day. It was the least she could do, after all these years of Syrin keeping her out of any real trouble. That was her friends' name, O-Rase Syrin, and they had been bests since they met in a junior karate class, the summer before the first grade started. Syrin's mother had been worried about her daughter walking to school, and Mysa's sister just thought it would be good for her character.

Growing up together, they had gone to the same schools, and were inseparable whenever they had the same classes. In elementary school, they had had a pretty tough reputation; even the fifth graders wouldn't pick on them. Their reputation followed them through middle school and even into the tenth grade. They still took karate together, along with multiple other fighting styles, and even ranked fairly high in tournaments. Syrin knew everything about Mysa, and Mysa knew everything about Syrin. That was one of the reasons they fought so well together (the other is practice, lol), because they could almost read each other's minds.

Because of all that, it had taken extra special effort to keep today a secret from her soul sister. Every time someone said happy birthday to Syrin, Mysa had to bite her tongue to keep from mentioning the party. Her tongue was very raw right now, but it had been worth it. Syrin would never see this coming!

Mysa's plan was simple: kidnap Syrin from her parent's house, blindfold her and put her in the car, then take her to their destination, which would just happen to be one of Syrin's most favorite places ever! (I'm making this place up, k? Please don't go looking for it... not that I thought YOU would...) Mysa had saved up all year for this, taking odd jobs around the neighborhood, and asking her sister for money (which she saved in stead of spending it... with a few exceptions...), so that she could afford to take Syrin, Tenshi Kyo (that's the boy Syrin is crushing on. Kyo is their mutual friend, but Syrin had developed feelings for him... and Mysa was sure that he had for Syrin as well) and herself to... the biggest beach/resort/amusement park in all of Japan: Dragon Fire, named after their most famous ride, the Dragon Fire Coaster!

As Mysa got dressed, she checked on her 'babies' to make sure that the alarm clock she had thrown had not harmed them. 'Not a scratch!' She thought, then her thoughts turned to the day ahead of her, and she smiled in happy complentation. There was another reason that this day was so special. It was Syrin's sweet sixteenth, and Mysa wanted to get back at her for the awesome party Syrin had sprung on her for her sixteenth, two months ago. Looking out the window at the cloudless sky, she just knew it was going to be a beautiful day.

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"Yes sir." Botan closed the little compact, and sighed. A very important artifact had been stolen, and this one wasn't going to be easy to recover. The scene of the crime was under an amusement park, and she just knew there was no way Yusuke was going to concentrate. It couldn't be helped. She called him first, then the others. Well, everyone she knew would answer, anyway. Kurama had agreed to get Hiei. He was the only one who knew where the little man was right now anyway.

Hiei looked out his window (for conveniences sake, even though I don't know where Hiei lives, he now lives in a house, really far away from where everyone else lives. Nice, but not flashy, and rather depressing if you study it too much. Kinda dark and brooding like) and snarled at the sky. It looked like it was going to be a beautiful day. He just knew something was going to come along to ruin it.

And it did.

Kurama popped up to the window, supported by plants. Hiei was a bit surprised, so Kurama almost lost his head. Leaving the window quickly, he shouted through the broken window for Hiei to meet him at the door in ten seconds. Hiei opened the front door before Kurama even stopped shouting.

"What do you want." Hiei asked, in his usual cheery attitude. Kurama looked very embarrassed, and rubbed the back of his head.

"Well, you see... Koenma... Botan... there was something very important stolen, and we have to go get it back!" He smiled cheerfully, then became more serious. "They say if we don't the world is going to end."

"Again? Don't they ever get tired of trying to end the world! I'm sure getting tired of saving it!"

"Apparently they don't. You in? You do live on this world."

"Do you suppose this once I could not, then join the resistance, and kill them then, when it's not so early in the morning?"

"You must have misheard me. They don't want to take OVER the world, they want to end it."

"Oh. Fine." Hiei agreed grumpily. Stomping up to his room, he quickly spiked up his hair, and followed Kurama out. "I suppose we are meeting at the baka's house?"

"No, not this time. We are to meet at the site where the object was stolen. A–" Kurama read the name on his hand. "A Dragon Fire Amusement park/resort/beach." Hiei groaned silently. Of course. It would just HAVE to be around a ton of these stupid humans.

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W.W.- Hello, one and all! Welcome to my first YYH fanfic! I have one on here from my friend, but I didn't write it, so this is truly my first! I hoped you liked the first chapter, and I hope you like all the ones that follow! -- I know it's kinda short, but it's also 4:00 a.m. now, while I'm writing this, and I can't sleep... but today I read this really nifty YYH fanfic on another site (quizilla, go figure) and now I want to write one of my own! I've always really liked YYH, but there are still a couple things I don't know... the series aired so long ago, you know? Sigh I forget insignificant things easily... like my name, how to spell my middle name, and how to spell just about anything beyond what I use in a daily vocabulary. I mean, how often do you say your own name! What do you think of my character's names, by the way? I made several of them up... don't know if they exist somewhere else... Oh, I know what I should do. Describe Mysa! She has mainly black hair, long, with two long bangs one on each side of her face streaked a blood red. Most of the time she has all of it in a ponytail/braid (seriously, the bangs are that long), but sometimes she'll wear it down. Lots of (baggy) faded jeans, lots of (tight) black t-shirts with smart ass sayings on them... two spiked rings, one on each middle finger... oh and she always paints her nails silver. I think that's... wait, no, I forgot eye color... a blue so dark it's almost black, except around the edges of the iris... then it fades into an electric blue. I do not own YYH. Erg... gotta go... busy drawing pic. of what Mysa looks like so I will know.