Hey everyone! It's me again. This next chapter is longer than the first and gives a bit more info on the relationship(s) between everyone. And that's all I'll tell you about this one. You'll just have to read it to find out what happens. See ya!

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Yusuke found Kurama in his garden behind his family's home the next day, tending to his plants. Shiori had shown him to the garden when he had asked to see him. He stood in the doorway watching him before he moved forward saying, "Hey, Kurama! Got a minute?"
"Sure, Yusuke. What is it that you need," he said as he turned to look at him.

"I need your help with something," Yusuke said as he carefully walked among the plants, so he wouldn't incur the kitsune's wrath.

"What is it? I am assuming that you need a plan of some sort,' the kitsune said as he turned to tend to one of the plants in front of him.

"Yeah. I want to get Hiei to train my demon abilities," Yusuke said with a casual shrug that belied his nervousness, "I thought of asking you, but you're busy with school and it wouldn't be fair to you. So Hiei was the best choice."

"You've thought a lot about this, I see. Why not just ask him?"

"I would if I could find the demon. If you happen to see him would you tell him I need to speak with him?"

"Of course, Yusuke."

"Thanks, Kurama. I'll see you around," Yusuke said as he left Kurama alone in his garden.

"What did the detective want, Kurama," Hiei asked from the tree where he sat.

"You heard him, Hiei. Are you going to train him?"

"Yes. It is actually y the opportunity that I've been looking for," Hiei said, as he left to look for Yususke.

He found him in a desolated part of the park practicing his attacks. He watched him for a while, getting a measure of his power level and skill before flitting down to him and striking him with his sword.

Yususke saw the sword coming and blocked it. He was elated that Hiei had found him and was willing to spar with him. As he blocked another strike he said, "I gather Kurama talked to you about training me."

"Hn."

"I'll take that as a yes. So when do you want to start?"

"Now, baka."

"Oh, okay," Yusuke said, changing into his demonic form.

They continued sparring in this fashion for the next couple of hours with no one the wiser, considering the speed at which they were fighting.

"You haven't done much with your demon form since you fought Sensui, have you," Hiei said when they stopped for a break.

"Naw, haven't found anyone to spar with that could handle it. Genkai can't help 'cause she's not a demon. Kuwabara certainly can't. That leaves you and Kurama. Kurama could have helped but he's so busy with school and stuff that I don't think it's fair to him to give him something else to worry about," Yusuke said as he started stretching to keep form getting stiff.

"Hn. Your physical attacks are acceptable. You haven't used any of your demonic powers. Why?"

"I'm not sure how to tap into them or use them," Yusuke said with a shrug as he turned to face Hiei as he stood across the clearing, his shirt in pieces.

"How do you use your spirit gun, detective," Hiei asked as his eyes wandered over Yusuke's body as he continued to stretch.

"I dunno. All I really do is concentrate my spirit energy into my finger and let go," Yusuke said.

"I don't suppose you meditate, do you," Hiei asked, with an inner sigh, not expecting the answer he got.

"Sure I do. You guys think I'm sleeping when I do," Yusuke said not noticing Hiei's look of surprise.

"Well, have you noticed anything different when you do?"

"Other than the fact that you guys are always hitting me? Yeah. It's as if my energy suddenly got higher and a hell of a lot more active."

"Higher, I understand. What do you mean by 'more active'?"

"Have you ever noticed how a kid acts when he's had too much sugar? No, I suppose you haven't. They become really annoying. They're always getting into trouble. You have to keep a constant eye on them and give them something to do to tire them out so that they're easier to handle."

"And how do make your energy less active," he said raising an eyebrow at Yusuke's analogy.

"Spar, get into fights, those sort of things."

"So your energy is less active now, detective?"

"Hell no, fire demon. I barely calmed the damn thing," he said still moving about in his demon form.

"Stand still, dammit," Hiei said, finally getting fed up with Yususke's incessant moving.

"Sorry, Hiei, but unless you want to explain to Koenma why the humans saw me flying through the sky, then I've got to keep moving."

"Flying," Hiei asked, as an idea of how Yusuke's demon abilities worked.

"Yeah. It actually happened one night by accident. Luckily it was dark enough that no one noticed," Yusuke said, with an embarrassed shrug.

"I want you to try something, Yusuke."

"What?"

"I want you to try to replicate Jin's flying, but only a few feet above the ground."

"What! I can't do that! I'm not a wind demon!"

"I am aware of that, Yusuke. Fine. We'll start off easy. I want you to float a few feet above the ground for as long as you can," Hiei said as he crossed his arms and leaned against a tree.

"Fine, but if I fall flat on my face, you had better not laugh at me," Yusuke said as he stopped and closed his eyes to concentrate.

Hiei watched him closely as he started to move slowly away from the ground. He noticed that Yusuke had a small smile on his face, and thought, 'I wonder what he's thinking about.'

"Good," Hiei said after Yusuke had been in the air for five minutes, "Now I want you to move around, so you're going to have to open your eyes."

Yusuke did so and slowly moved around the clearing avoiding the trees and branches that were in his way. After another then minutes of this, he touched down in front of Hiei and asked, "How did you know that flying was my demon ability?"

"I didn't."

"You guessed," Yusuke said, his surprise clearly showing.

"No, I assumed. You told me that you already flew once on accident. I believed that you could do so again on purpose," Hiei said ignoring the detective's surprise and anger.

"Oh. Thanks for believing that I could do that Hiei," Yusuke said as he stopped the beginnings of an angry rant.

"Hn. Is your energy still overactive, detective," Hiei asked outwardly indifferent to Yusuke's gratitude.

"Yeah. I could do that stuff all day."

"Good," he said, drawing his katana, "I want you to defend yourself in the air."

He waited until Yusuke was a few inches off the ground before he started attacking him. Yusuke did as Hiei wanted and didn't attack him but defended himself. He dodged the attacks that were aimed at him and those he couldn't dodge he blocked. This went on for the next hour or so and at a much slower pace than before. It was a good thing that they were in a deserted part of the park or the humans would have noticed that one of the fighters was a foot above the ground.

"Good," Hiei said as they rested some time later, "It seems that you have the same capabilities in the air as you do on the ground."

"Heh, thanks, Hiei," Yusuke said as he braced his palms on his knees, trying to catch his breath.

"I think that's enough for today, detective. We will meet here again at the same time tomorrow," Hiei said before leaving the detective behind.

"Sure thing, Hiei," Yusuke said as he gathered his jacket and headed home thinking about his partner, not realizing that said partner was following him.

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Well, there you have it folks. Chapter 2 of Unexpected Changes. Not much, it's more of a filler than anything else, ain't it? The next chapter gets even better. Just a warning: it contains some lime in it. So until then!