Author's Notes: This is my second chapter. I hope you enjoy. Remember, if you have ANY ideas whatsoever, e-mail me or put it in a review.

Warning!! There WILL be shounen-ai. If you don't like it, you can leave. Don't bother with stupid reviews trying to insult me for writing how I want. This is FANFICTION, it does NOT have to go by the storyline.

Disclaimer: I do not and never will own Inuyasha or Yu Yu Hakusho. How sad, huh?

Chapter 1

By clowangel

"Buyo! Where are you?!" A young boy looked around an old shed, searching for their famly pet; a fat cat.

"Shura, what are you doing?" asked a young man dressed in black who had just stepped out of the backdoor of their two story house.

"Looking for Buyo, onii-san," Shura replied meekly, violet orbs downcast.

"Grandfather has told us not to go in that shed and to stay away from it," the boy's brother said sternly, ruby eyes narrowing.

"H-hai onii-san." Shura shuffled back into the house with a resigned sigh.

"Hiei! Come in here! It's time you opened your presents!" a woman's voice called from within the walls of the house.

"Hai, okaa-san." Hiei took a step towards the house but stiffed when he felt something eerie come from the shed. Whipping his head around, glaring and hand placed on the hilt of his katana, he scanned the area before dismissing it as a hallucination. He stepped back into the house.

That afternoon, after the celebration of Hiei's fifteenth birthday, the ruby-eye boy inspected the well house. There was no doubt he had felt a pulse of power this time. Shura being a curious kid followed his brother but stayed close by.

Drawing his katana, Hiei slid the shed door open and peered inside with narrowed ruby orbs.

Looking at his brother, Shura's eyes also narrowed when he heard some shuffling sounds come from within the well house. Eyes widening, he stepped into the forbidden area. "Buyo?!" he called. Turning away from the well, he looked around trying to see into the darkness. "Buyo!!" He wasn't there.

"Shura! Get down!" Hiei ordered sternly, holding his katana in front of him, ready to strike.

"Huh?" Shura stared at his brother in confusion.

"I said GET DOWN!" he repeated with a snarl.

Shura got the message and without another though, he dropped to the floor. Hiei leapt over the boy and slashed. An arm fell to the floor with a thud. Hiei held in a groan of disgust from seeing the twitching limb on the ground. He had never severed anyone's arm before. Looking up, he finally saw clearly what he had been sensing all day and could not hold back his gasp of surprise and shock.

Hearing his brother gasp, Shura looked up from the floor and screamed, backing into a wall.

It was a centipede woman. Her many arms twitched in anticipation and her long tongue ran over her red lips, eyeing the children before her. She had pitch-black hair that cascaded down to her waist. Her upper body looked human enough. Hiei wondered briefly why she wasn't wearing any clothing. However, below her torso, many legs were attached to a long, segmented body. In other words, this woman was part bug, ugly, and rather big.

"Shikon…no tama…" Her beady black eyes gleamed in the dark. "Give me… Shikon no tama!" she screeched and dived at Hiei. He jumped out of the way, fear coursing through his system. He had never seen a youkai before. Sure his grandfather spoke of them often, but he thought the old man was talking crazy. Taking a quick look behind him, he noticed his brother was frozen in place with fear. Eyes flickering back to the ugly demon, he called to Shura.

"Shura! Get out of here!" Hiei ordered.

Snapping out of his stupor, he looked fearfully up at his brother. "But, onii-san--!"

"Shura! There is no time for arguments! Now, GO!" Hiei barked at the cowering boy.

Hesitating for a few seconds, Shura shot out of the well house, but not without a worried backward glance. 'I have to tell Grandpa and haha-ue...'

Meanwhile, Hiei was trying his best to dodge the demon's attacks but the shed was too small to allow much movement so his speed didn't help him like he hoped. Frankly, he had no idea how to kill a demon and he was slowly getting worn out. His quivering nerves didn't help either.

Hiei's head swiveled towards the door when he heard rapid footsteps approaching the battle. That was his mistake. The centipede grabbed him and proceeded to drag him down the well.

"Hiei!" his mother gasped, eyes wide with fear.

Shura who was behind the shocked woman ran towards the well and looked down to find the demon and his brother were engulfed in a mystical blue light.

"Onii-san!" He tried reaching for his hand, but they had disappeared. He dropped onto his knees, tears falling from his light violet eyes.

"Let go of me, bitch!" Replaced by fear was anger and frustration. How dare this demon take him away from his family! Sword still in his hand, he angrily stabbed into the demon's abdomen. Hiei's ruby orbs widened when a light red-violet energy hummed, poured forth from within him, and plunged into the insane demon. The force blasted a hole through her. She screeched and was thrown back.

As abruptly the blue light had engulfed him, it vanished. Hiei blinked, a blank look on his face before noticing something a second later. Something didn't smell right. Literally. The air was too fresh. Looking around him, he noticed a vine and effortlessly climbed it. What met his eyes nearly knocked him over.

"Where in hell am I?" he found himself asking out loud, red eyes taking in the endless stretch of grass, spring flowers in bloom that were giving off a sweet fragrant smell, and the many trees that probably led to a forest. He blinked again before saying rather loudly, "Am I fucking dreaming?" 'Everything's been too weird for it to be a dream,' he concluded a second later. Still confused about where he had ended up, Hiei decided to do some exploring to pass the time.

The forest wasn't too thick, allowing the afternoon sunlight to filter through the treetops, displaying splattered patterns on the forest floor and undergrowth.

Eventually, Hiei reached an old tree that looked strangely familiar. Deciding to take a closer look, he walked around the tree. His eyes widened in surprise when he saw a young man pinned to it, seemingly asleep. However, an old arrow in his chest killed the thought. Looking at him closely, he could tell the man could not be older than seventeen years of age and had a really pretty face. Briefly, he wondered what color the beautiful man's eyes were. A gentle wind blew causing the seemingly sleeping man's blood-red tresses to flow with it, giving him an ethereal glow. Mesmerized, Hiei climbed up the tree's roots, his hand reached up to brush the scarlet strands away. However, his hand stopped mere inches from doing what he unconsciously intended to when an elder woman's voice rang through the clearing.

"Stranger! What are you doing in Kurama's Forest?!"

Startled, Hiei withdrew his hand and mentally scolded himself for letting his guard down. While he was spaced out, an old hag and a bunch of men had surrounded him with him noticing. That was not good. He had been trained to sense enemies from a distance. He found himself wondering if he had been that out of it.

"I've been wondering the same thing, hag" he found himself replying roughly, just barely restraining a growl.

"Identify yourself!" Genkai barked. The old woman was not in the best of moods today. First, she had thought she sensed her deceased sister's signature energy, and then found a kid in the sacred Forest of Kurama. Now said kid was getting rather angry for who knows what reason.

"The name's Hiei" he bit out. "What the hell do you want with me? If it's a fight you want, bring it." He didn't hesitate in drawing his sword. The finely sharped katana caught a ray and glinted under the afternoon sun.

"We'd like to avoid fighting if possible. I just want to know what it is you're doing here of all places." Genkai didn't want to fight without good reason. Lately, she hadn't been feeling the best.

"As I've said, I have no damn clue as to why I'm here. I just ended up here after being dragged down a damn well by an insane centipede youkai demanding some shit by the name of Shikon no Tama."

The group gasped. "Shikon no Tama? Are you sure that's what the youkai was looking for?"

"God damn it, yes!" Hiei was really starting to lose his patience. 'Did these people not understand Japanese?'

"Would you mind much following me back to the village? I'd like to speak with you."

"Fine" he bit out and sheathed his sword in a single fluid movement. Genkai rose a brow at how well trained the youth was with a sword.

"What about him though?" Hiei nodded towards the unconscious redhead pinned to the tree.

"Kurama-sama? He's been sleeping for the past 50 years. I don't believe he'll be waking up anytime soon" Genkai replied softly with hidden sorrow. She never did find out what had happened on that fateful day fifty years ago.

Hiei's eyes widened for the umpteenth time that day. 'Fifty years? How was that possible?' He found his eyes wandering back to the youth, taking in his beautiful features.

A good twenty minutes later, Hiei found himself sitting inside a small hut with a burning fire set up in the middle of the small room facing the old woman who was now sipping a cup of tea. There were a few villagers standing guard outside with hoes and shovels and such.

"I have some questions for you, young man." Genkai placed her cup of tea down on the mat.

"Ask then. My patience is wearing thin as we speak though."

Genkai ignored that. "Are you a youkai?"

"A youkai? No. I'm human."

"Then why is it you have ruby eyes?"

"Doctors claimed it was a mutation of sorts" Hiei replied lazily.

"Doctors?" Genkai was unfamiliar with the term. "What are doctors if I may ask?"

Hiei stared at the old woman in front of him strangely. She didn't know what a doctor was? Where in fucken hell was he?! "You know, they give you medication when you get sick?"

"Oh, you meant healers." She understood now. Sort of.

"Whatever." Now, Hiei was seriously wondering if he was in some warped dream.

Taking another sip of her steaming cup of tea, she continued with her interrogation. "Earlier, in the forest, you claimed you were dragged down a well by a youkai who was looking for the Shikon no Tama."

Hiei gave a stiff nod of his head, eyes narrowed suspiciously at the short woman.

"Thank you. That is all I wish to know."

"Now for my own questions" Hiei said rather gruffly, barely withholding a growl. "How in hell do I get back home? I have no desire to stay in such weird places any longer than necessary."

"Theoretically, since you came through the Bone Eater Well, you can go back the same way. However, having never traveled through dimensions or time, I cannot tell you where it will take you," Genkai explained solemnly, still taking small sips from her cup of quickly cooling tea.

"Hn. Anyplace is better than strange worlds with youkai roaming the earth."

Genkai raised a mental brow. 'Youkai don't exist everywhere…?'

Hiei stood and prepared to leave. Genkai, probably having expected as much asked him to wait a moment.

"What is it, hag?"

Genkai suppressed a twitch. "It is not wise for one so young to head out after dark. Especially since the forest is swarming with youkai."

"Whatever. It doesn't matter. I have my sword. I can take care of myself." With that, Hiei stepped out of the hut.

"Matte, gaki. Allow me to accompany you. After all, it is quite dark. You might get lost" Genkai stood to follow.

"Sure, whatever, but I don't think anyone can get lost when that forest is glowing like that." Internally, Hiei was rather glad for the company. He did not know anything about this new strange world. Although he had a hunch he knew where he was even though it was a bit odd.

'He can see the forest's light…?' Genkai's eyes widened. 'Can it be…?'

Suddenly a group of five villagers supporting an injured villager came rushing towards Genkai in a panicked pace. "Genkai-sama! Taihen desu! Youkai…attacking!"

"Nani?! Get him inside my hut. I'll be back to tend to him after I deal with the problem!" Genkai ordered. "You two lead the way!" She pointed to two of the villagers who were holding pitchforks.

"Hai, Genkai-sama!"

In less than fifteen minutes, the small group arrived at the scene and Hiei raised a brow at the scene. A hoard of villagers was shooting arrows and spears at the female centipede youkai who had grabbed him earlier. None of the attacks were taking effect on the bug. It was kind of funny. To him it was anyway.

"Genkai-sama!" a few of them cried in relief as they saw their village miko.

"SHIKON….NO..TAMA..!!" The centipede woman turned to Hiei, beady eyes eyeing him hungrily.

Hiei forced himself not to grimace at the demon. Instead, he opted to draw his sword in preparation for a fight.

Hiei started when the old woman shouted out something like 'shot gun' and fired a massive amount of bright blue spheres of energy at the demon, sending it crashing into a few trees surrounding the Goshinboku. 'That's right! That tree is the Goshinboku! Meaning…I've traveled back in time…?' Hiei's eyes widened at the newly gained knowledge. 'So this is how the world was before technology.'

The demon was only slightly scratched and wasn't deterred at all. Instead, she dove with renewed vigor at Hiei who simply jumped out of the way with a nimble leap across the clearing, ending up right in front of the Goshinboku. Forgetting about the tail though, Hiei soon found himself wrapped tightly against the holy tree with the sleeping 'Kurama-sama'.

"Ano, what's going on?" Hiei heard a voice behind him ask. Without so much as wondering why there would be someone in a tree talking, he answered.

"An attack! Are you an idiot?" the vertically challenged human grit his teeth as air was forced out of his lungs.

"I'd like to think not."

"Then shut up!" Hiei all but growled before he realized someone was talking. Turning his head slightly, he looked up and found himself staring into emerald green orbs. "…"

"…" Kurama blinked. "Is there something on my face?"

"You're supposed to be asleep or some shit like that!" Hiei gasped as the centipede tightened her hold on him. Forgetting about the newly awakened redhead, he turned his attention to the ugly demon. His left arm was pinned to his side and his right hand had dropped his sword the moment he was smashed to the tree. Growling, he tried to think of something he could do to get out of this mess. His concentration was blown to the wind as the grip slacked and something immensely sharp dug into his hip. He unsuccessfully bit back a scream. "Shit!" That fucking demon just bit him!

A glowing jewel emerged from the open wound and landed on the soft grass below. Hiei blinked. 'There was a chunk of rock in him his entire life??' He found himself to be quite irked by the fact.

"Shikon…" The demon now ignored him, unraveling her tail from around the Goshinboku and dove for the jewel laying some yards away.

"Everyone shoot!" Genkai's scratched voice ordered. She decided not to think too much on why Kurama-sama would awaken all of a sudden and why a stranger from another world would have the Shikon no Tama imbedded within him. Instead, she raised her fist and punched forward, sending more glowing blue spheres of energy racing towards the giant centipede woman. They singed her, but nothing more.

Hiei found himself on the ground gasping for air as the centipede youkai slithered towards the glowing jewel. He quickly retrieved his sword.

"You must not let the demon get the jewel." Kurama called to Hiei.

"And why the hell shouldn't I?" Hiei found his eyes glaring at the pinned redhead. "That piece of shit caused me the current problem."

"You don't understand. That jewel holds immense power. To let it fall into the wrong hands can bring about the destruction of the world" Kurama explained.

"Tch. Fine." He figured if this world goes boom, so does his. Seeing as he lives in the future and all.

Hiei rushed to the demon and tried to stab her but was only flung back into the Goshinboku as the sword made only a small dent in the hard armor of the damn bug.

"Shit. It doesn't do anything to that damn bug bitch."

Kurama raised a brow at the cursing. "Release me then."

"Can't you do that yourself?" Hiei growled and put a hand to his ribs and winced. 'Damnit, seems like the bug broke a rib.'

"If I could, I wouldn't still be stuck here, now would I?" Kurama retorted, slightly irritated.

Hiei grumbled and climbed onto the roots of the Goshinboku. "What do I do?"

"Just pull the arrow out," Kurama said.

"Oh no you don't..!!" The youkai screeched, dove for the jewel mere feets away, swallowed it, and immediately wrapped up the pair again with the length of her body.

Hiei coughed. His injured ribs were being put under pressure with the damn thing's tight squeeze. "What a wonderful way to die."

"If you would just hurry and pull this out, we can get out of this quite alive" Kurama commented pleasantly, with not the least bit of panick.

"Trying to, damn it!" Hiei cursed and tried to reach for the arrow. Finally, taking a hold of it, he tugged. "C'mon you damn shit!" Tugging with what strength he could muster at the moment, he shut his eyes and pulled ever harder. Finally, the arrow glowed a blood red and disintegrated into dust with a burst of power. "There! Now do something about this bitch." Hiei grunted. His ribs were going to be smashed at this rate.

"Gladly." Kurama reached into his hair and pulled out…a rose.

Hiei couldn't help but blink. "What the hell do you think you're doing? Can't you pick a better time to ask out women?!"

Kurama raised a brow. "I assure you I'm not trying to woo anyone." With a flick of his wrist and a calm voicing of "Rose Whip!" the rose elongated and morphed into a viciously sharp and barbed green whip.

Hiei raised a brow. 'Never seen that before.'

With another flick of his wrist, the redhead severed the tail of the centipede, letting himself and Hiei drop to the ground lightly on their feet.

While Hiei regained his breath sitting on the soft grass, he watched the fight. Kurama was surprisingly nimble, graceful, and strong. The vertically challenged human would've never guessed judging by the femininely graceful features of the young man. Taking a deeper look into the fight, he noticed no matter how many times Kurama cut up the demon, the demon would piece herself back together.

"Hiei!" Genkai called. "Are you okay?" She rushed over.

"Just fine. Only a broken rib or two." He grunted in pain as he tried to stand up. Deciding that was probably a bad idea, he remained seated.

"Let me heal you." Genkai placed her palms face down, hovering over Hiei's ribs. A light blue glow surrounded the woman's hands. Hiei immediately felt his breathing became easier and the pain began to fade until, in two minutes, the pain was all but nonexistent.

"Thank you," Hiei uncomfortable bit out.

"You're welcome. Now back to more serious matters. Hurry and tell me where the shikon no tama is in that demon. If it is not removed, she cannot be defeated."

"How can I see it? It's in her," Hiei replied skeptically.

"I believe you can and only you."

"Fine, whatever." Looking over at the fight, he watched the centipede carefully. To his surprise, he saw a faint glow in the midsection of the cenitpede. "I see it."

"Good. Now just tell Kurama-sama where it is and he can cut it off for you to retrieve."

Hiei didn't say anything. He merely got up and raced off towards the fight. "Hn." Appearing a few feet away from the still battling Kurama, he told of the jewel's location. Immediately, Kurama directed his whip to the area, resulting in a spray of violet blood.

"Now!" Kurama ordered. Normally, Hiei would be miffed, but right now was too serious a situation to take any offense. The rather short young man immediately dove for the jewel and rolled out of the thrashing demon's way. Kurama made short work of the remaining demoness and soon, the whip returned into the form of the harmless rose and disappeared into his mane of vibrant red hair.

"This stupid piece of rock caused this many problems?" Hiei stared down at the small round jewel in his palm that had ceased glowing.

"That's correct. That jewel can give power to demons and humans alike who seek power and can be corrupted easily" Genkai explained then turned to the tall redhead. "Kurama-sama… You're awake after fifty years of slumber. I welcome you back."

Kurama smiled slightly. "Fifty years. Has it been that long?" Hesitating for a second, he asked the question weighing so heavily on his mind since his awakening. "Genkai-chan, what has become of Shizuru?"

Genkai looked solemnly into Kurama's eyes and replied remorsefully, "Shizuru-onee-sama passed away on the same day you were sealed."

Kurama's emerald orbs glazed over with pain before settling on nothing at all a second later. "I…see… Gomen."

"It's been a long time."

Hiei, meanwhile, was becoming rather impatient. "Old hag, I'm leaving."

"Stay for tonight. Leave in the morning after we explain to you what has happened. You also need the rest," Genkai offered.

Hiei nodded, realizing he did need the rest. He glanced over at the silent redhead known as 'Kurama-sama'. 'What is he? Is he another demon? He sure doesn't look like a demon.' The very same thing his mind was mulling over interrupted his thoughts.

"What's your name?" Smiling leaf-green eyes looked down at him.

"Hiei" was the stiff reply.

"Ah, Douzo yoroshiku, Hiei-kun." Kurama smiled disarmingly.

Hiei found himself almost mesmerized by the charming smile before turning away swiftly. "Hn."

'What an interesting character this Hiei is.' Kurama grinned. Looking up into the night sky, he smiled softly. 'Rest in peace, Shizuru-chan.'

The group headed back to the village for some well-deserved rest, waiting for morning to come by.

Author's Notes: Well, here's the second chapter! Third chapter has yet to be started on. I apologize for the long wait. As you can probably see, I have a lot of stuff I'm working on right now and I'm up to my neck in work.

Now on to the people that have appeared:

Genkai as Kaede

Shizuru as Kikyo

Kurama as Inuyasha

Hiei as Kagome (surprise?)

If anyone has any ideas whatsoever for this fanfic, please send me an e-mail me or leave it in a review. ) I greatly appreciate it.