Disclamier: I do not own the YYH characters, I do own Serenity, Kaze, and Kanji, who i am not all happy at the moment.

this has to be my longest chapter in the histroy

I have noticed that you people only seem to respond to mushy stuff, so next chapter I'll try to add some, but I know if not the next chapter, but the one after that will be good and mushy.

"Man! I still have the taste of that burnt toast in my mouth!"
"Oh shut up Yusuke, its your own fault."
"How is it my fault that you gave me the burnt toast?"
"My mistake" said Serenity sarcastically.

The whole gang was gathered around a large tree talking amongst themselves, Yusuke had been complaining all morning about the burnt toast that Serenity 'accidentally' gave him.

Kaze chuckled to himself. He had been walking down the street on his way home from work when they spotted him and called him over, he smiled and came over and sat next to Shizuru.

"Hey do you think that someone should explain to him, that most of us here are really weird?" Asked Serenity from her spot under the tree branch that Hiei was on.

"When you said most of us, shouldn't you have just said yourself?" Muttered Yusuke, which was stupid because he was lying down next to her.

She hit him.

"Oww..." Yusuke said holding his head from where she hit him.
" I will do it." Said Kurama.

(About 20 minuets later)

"Wow, so all of yall are demons?" Asked Kaze, he really had aimed the question at Shizuru, he hoped desperately that she wasnt a demon.

"Nope just a lot of us." Said Serenity.

"I got a idea; we could fight and show him our awesome demon powers!" Said Yusuke excitingly.

" You guys wanna fight? I'll take you all on!" Said Serenity, sitting up.

"No way! I'm not gonna fight you Serenity."

"Why not Kuwabara?"

"I just... I just don't fight girls...it goes against my honor code"

"Awww... Please! I gotta fight someone with a sword."

"Then fight Hiei" said Yusuke while getting up and stretching.

"Hey Hiei! Will you fight me!" She said looking up at the branch Hiei was on.

"Hn" was all he said but he jumped down from his branch.

"I guess I'll take that as a yes" she muttered.

"Ok, well I know this big field we could go to, where not that many people can see us." Said Yusuke.

" To the field!"

(10 minuets later)

"Well that was a boring walk"

"Well for you it was Yusuke; I found it very fun."

"And why is that Serenity?"

"Cause I've never been down this street."

"Well here we are." Said Kuwabara.

It was true, the field they had went to was very large indeed, but the entrance was very open so people who walked by could see everything that was happening inside.

'I'll have to fix that' Serenity thought.

"Ok who's all fighting?" Asked Yusuke.

"I am." Said Serenity.

"And I" said Kurama.

"You're fighting?" Asked Serenity.

He nodded. 'I want to see if she's gotten any good.'

"Hn"

"I guess that means Hiei's fighting. What order do we want to go in?"

"How about I fight till I cant go on any longer, the person who stay's down for longer than four counts is out, anything goes and any weapon except daggers." Said Serenity, she shivered at the though of daggers.

"Ok, I'll go first, then Kurama, then Hiei, deal?" Asked Yusuke

"Sure."

Both Serenity and Yusuke took their places at separate ends of the field.

"Ready? Let the fun begin!" Said Serenity

Everything was still; the wind started to blow as both teens began to power up.

Then Yusuke charged, he right fist raised and glowing.

Serenity just stood there, smiling, impressed by his speed. Then at the last second before Yusuke through this punch, she disappeared.

"What the hell?" he shouted as he stopped himself from falling.

Another gust of wind swirled around the field, this time caring the sound of laughter.

"I see what she's doing." whispered Kurama.

Hiei nodded.

"Come on Yusuke...did you really think I was gonna just stand there?" Serenity said, her voice carried in the wind.

"well it would have been nice.."

a giggle was heard right behind Yusuke as if Serenity was standing there.

He turned around frantically trying to find her, which made him look like a complete idiot, but he only saw wind.

as soon as he stopped spinning around he felt fingers run up and down his back, sending shivers up his spin, but when he turned around, no one was there.

"ok this is starting to piss me off, wait I remember grandma telling me something about this kinda thing.."

/Flashback/

"Listen up dimwit!" yelled Genkai during one of their training sessions.

"your opponent might not always just go and flat out attack you."

"and why not?"

"SHUT UP! look at Kitsune's for example, they are masters at trickery and illusions, they never charge into blindly like you do, they watch their opponent and study their movements and attack styles. they are one of the most feared demons in Makai, and for good reasons, because of their illusions. Inside these illusions, you are at the mercy of the Kitsune, the only way to escape the illusion of a kitsune is to hit them directly, or if they let you out."

"so basically if I don't hit them, I'm screwed."

"if you want to put it that way, then yes"

"remind me never to get trapped in Kurama's illusion."

/End flashback/

"ok so now all I have to do is find her and hit her.." said Yusuke while he looked around to find her, but only finding fog.

"which is harder than it looks, why couldn't she just stand in the open?"

Then a thought hit him, 'maybe I could blow away the illusion...'

so he began to power up his spirit gun, then waited.

"ok Yusuke, you gotta do something, I'm getting bored.." said Serenity thru the fog.

"THERE!" Yusuke cried when he thought he had the location of Serenity and shot his spirit gun.

"SPIRIT GUN!"

Serenity just stood there and watched as Yusuke's spirit gun miss her by about 20 feet.

She laughed openly "you missed"

but she wasnt prepared when Yusuke fired his shotgun at her, she just stood there and watched as her illusion faded away.

She didn't even feel the somewhat ten bullets hit her.

When the fog cleared the girls gasped, along with Kuwabara.

Serenity was smiling despite the fact that she wounds. she had a decent size wound on her shoulder from Yusuke's blast. But to her, it was a mere scratch. she didn't even notice the blood running down her arm and dripping onto the grass.

"lets make this more fun shall me?" as she said this her eyes started to glow gold, with a sudden burst of light she transformed into her demon from, and with a flick of her wrist a strong surge of ki flew out and surrounded the field.

"wow! you guys weren't laying! she is a demon, and she's rather attractive." Kaze said in astonishment.

this comment earned him glares from Kurama, Hiei, and Shizuru.

A little ways away, in a tree came a glare from Kanji, who was watching the fight closely, 'no she's mine...' he thought

"what the hell did you just do Serenity!" yelled Yusuke looking around to see if there were any wounds on him.

"well I just transformed into my demon form..."

"No! I got that part perfectly! I was talking about-"

Serenity interrupted "well if you understood it perfectly then why did you ask?"

Yusuke growled in frustration " I was talking about that blast you sent out."

"Ohhh that! why didn't you just say so?"

Yusuke was almost shaking in anger.

" I just created another illusion, but this time you can't break it, only I can. Its a illusion for the people walking past this street, when they look in this field, they will just see a empty field." she giggled

She flicked her tail "now lets continue."

she pulled a seed from her hair and using her power she turned it into a Cherry Blossom.

Yusuke laughed, his anger disappeared "Right! let the best man win!" as he again charged towards her, his fist again glowing.

"you mean women!" she yelled as she transformed the cherry blossom into a sword, but this sword had dull ends so it couldn't do serious damage. then she charged forward ready to meet him half way.

Right before Yusuke and her collided Serenity swerved and cause Yusuke to run past her, as he went past her she smacked him in the back on the legs with her sword, causing him to fall.

When he fell he slid several feet.

Yusuke muttered a few curses as he tried to get back up, but then a sudden weight on his back made cause him to fall.

"oof"

Serenity started laughing from her seat on Yusuke's back.

"I win."

"that's cheap! you tripped me!"

"alls fair in love and war. plus you said anything goes remember."

Yusuke stuck his tongue out at her, then he started laughing "all right all right you win! now get off me!"

"are you implying I'm fat?"

"I'm just saying your not really all that light."

she stood up and fell back on him again.

"hey, you should have never let your guard down, sometimes Kitsune's rely on tricks to beat their opponents, if this was a real fight you would be dead."

on the sidelines Kuwabara was laughing so hard that he was leaning on the tree for support. thru his laughing he mocked Yusuke.

"HAHA Urameshi! you got beat by a girl!"

"hey! she happens to be a Kitsune! They're hard to beat!"

"are you saying that a girl can't fight as hard as a guy?" asked Shizuru

"no of course not."

"that's what I thought.."

"I believe it is my turn to fight you Serenity." said Kurama walking towards Serenity.

"yep!" she said as she got off Yusuke who walked back over to were everyone else was standing and hit Kuwabara. "that's for making fun of me." he muttered.

"what's the rules?" asked Serenity

"same as last time, except lets make it a battle of whips, shall we?" Kurama said pulling out a rose from his hair.

"peachy" she changed her sword into a whip as Kurama turned his rose into his famous Rose whip.

'so, she's gonna use her famous cherry blossom whip..'

'what?'

'don't be fooled by the name, it might just surpass our rose whip..'

"nice whip." Serenity complemented "looks kinda like my brothers..."

"yours is lovely." Kurama smiled.

"don't underestimate my whip, I have improved my whip, thanks to my brother's whip always winning I had to improve my own."

"come on already! stop talking and fighting!" yelled Yusuke from the sidelines, he was growing impatient.

as soon as he said that Kurama and Serenity both took of, their whips clashing against each others as they both tried to hit the other, every once and a while the others whip would smack them. they pretty much stayed in the same places, just running back and forth.

The bleeding on Serenity's shoulder had increased. the ground was beginning to get covered with blood,

Kurama was bleeding as well now, not as bad as Serenity, but it wasnt looking to good.

'she's gotten a lot better, her speed has improved..'

Kurama only nodded.

"come on Kurama! Let's see your demon form!" yelled Serenity.

Kurama smirked, "maybe, if you earn it!"

Serenity smirked back, just then she wrapped Kurama in her whip.

"ack!" Kurama chocked, then he spit out some blood. the smirk never leaving his face.

"oh yea?" he muttered.

Just then Serenity was tied up in Kurama's rose whip.

Her hold on Kurama lessened, till he was free.

Both of her hands were wrapped around the hilt of her whip.

her eyes widened, as she gasped.

Kurama looked worried, so he gently tapped into her mind and heard.

'crap! I can't move my left arm! I think I lost to much blood...this cant be good..'

'let her go! let her go! let her go! let her go! let her go!'

'SHUT UP!'

'she is hurt Kurama! you cant just let our sister sit there in pain! If you don't help her, I will haunt your dreams and make then nightmares.'

a weird look appeared on Kurama's face

'how do you know that you don't already?'

when Kurama was distracted Serenity smirk grew as she split her whip into two, and as Kurama's whip relaxed slightly, unknown to Kurama, she used both of her whips and wrapped Kurama in a double binding.

"ack!" Kurama said as he felt himself fall over. he was expecting to be hurt by the thorns when he hit the ground, but no pain came.

"gotcha ya."

Kurama looked up from his weird position on the ground at Serenity, who was leaning over him.

"I win!"

Kurama smiled, "yes you won, now let me go."

"maybe, but first you gotta turn into your demon form."

Kurama's smile started to fade, but luck was on his side.

"now you must fight me, fox." said Hiei as he walked over, sword out and ready.

he cut Serenity's whips in half, allowing Kurama to get free.

'that was close..'

'you owe me'

Serenity frowned and took another seed from her hair, and turned this one into a makeshift sword. it was almost identical to Hiei's

she blinked and Hiei was gone, she felt him behind her, and she had just enough time to block his attack with her own sword, sparks appeared as the swords meet.

"you know fox, your little trick wont work on me, I can see thru your illusions." his Jagan was glowing behind his bandana.

"ok, If you didn't have the Jagan, you would be under my illusion." Serenity smiled.

Hiei smirked " I don't promise that."

Serenity dropped her illusion.

"what the hell? were did your wound on your shoulder go?" yelled Yusuke.

"come on Yusuke, did you really think that you hit me? I let you out of my illusion."

'why that little...'

"enough talk."

Hiei started to attack again, but this time Serenity fought back full force, neither her or Hiei were holding anything back.

"Dear Kami! look at them go!" Yusuke yelled, trying with all his might to keep up with them.

"wow...make a note to remember, never make Hiei mad." Kaze muttered.

you could hear the clashing of the swords, and you could see the sparks when the swords meet, and for most of the people watching, that's all they could see.

Serenity was holding her own, she didn't fight back as much then she was at the start of their battle, but when she got the chance, she attacked with almost everything she had.

Hiei was giving everything he had, she had managed to hit him a few times, but he had hit her at least 10 times, when she had only him around 5 times.

Serenity was getting tired, she had fought to many battles to keep up her speed, and she knew Hiei knew this, everyone was just having trouble keeping up with their movements so they couldn't tell who was winning or anything.

"man, I feel lame." Yusuke sighed.

"Urameshi, you're already lame."

"shut up Kuwabara."

"I'm not the one who got beat by a girl." He whispered, hoping that Shizuru didn't hear.

"at least I fought her, and if I got beat by a girl, and you get beat by me, where does that put you?"

Kuwabara didn't reply.

"so Yusuke, you feel lame because she didn't feel you were worthy enough to give you her full strength?"

"thanks Kurama, you make me feel so much better, just like rubbing salt into a open wound."

"That I don't recommend, but alas we both got beat by her, and she didn't feel that either of us was worthy of her full strength."

Yusuke nodded. "hey, she's getting tired."

Kurama nodded, he could see that as well.

Just then the final attack happened, Serenity was to slow to block Hiei's next attack and he preformed his 16 Jagan slash (A/N that's really a attack of his. its basically, he slashing you 16 times really fast.)

wounds all over her body appeared, and this time they were real.

She struggled to remain standing, Hiei just stood there and watched.

'No...I lost..'

"How could I lose...?"

"Hn, simple, you let your guard down for a moment, and a moment of hesitation in a battle is certain death, you should know that fox."

She nodded weakly, "I know...I've been in that moment, its the moment of life and death, everything seems to slow and freeze, as you kill your opponent... knowing if you don't, you will die..."

"You've killed someone Serenity?" ask Keiko.

"its something I'm not to proud of..." Serenity seemed to be having trouble breathing, or she was struggling to stay awake, they couldn't tell.

"the people who had me, they made me fight... and if I didn't kill them, I would be killed..."

Many of the girls were in shock, they never would have thought that Serenity, their friend who was always smiling and happy, would kill someone.

"sorry guys...I'm not that great of a person.."

"oh don't say that dear, you're a great person, its not like you had a choice." said Botan, trying to cheer up Serenity.

a Ghost of a smile appeared on Serenity's lips as silent tears made their way down her face. " that's what I've told myself for years... that it wasnt my fault, that I didn't have a choice, but if it really wasnt my fault, then why do I still have nightmares with their screams in it? why do I dream of them haunting me, telling me that I killed them..."

Serenity sank to her knees, as it started to rain.

"come one Serenity, that wasnt you! you can start new, fresh!" said Keiko

"we wont judge you." said Yukina.

"come one, do you really think that some of us here haven't killed someone before? I've killed before! I'm not proud of it, but that's life, get over it." Yusuke said

"that's mean Yusuke!" yelled Keiko.

"what? its the truth!"

"you can start fresh, right now, you can leave the old you here, in the rain. Let the rain wash away everything bad from you."

"like.. the rain..."

Serenity glanced around and say the rain washing away the blood from the battles, it also washed away the dirt from Yusuke, Kurama, and herself from being on the ground.

She stood up, her legs having trouble keeping her up. she looked up at the sky, the rain running thru her hair and on her face, she started to smile.

"I'll start new... like the rain..."

to worn out to move, Serenity collapsed, but thankfully Hiei caught her before she hit the ground, she sighed as she felt sleep about to take her "someone up there must really love me, to give me friends like you guys..." she said this while snuggling into the warmth of Hiei, she half expected him to jerk away from her, but he didn't, causing her to smile more.

just as she was about to slip into unconsciousness she heard "someone up there must really love me, to give me a sister like you, Seri.."

her eyes snapped open

she suddenly wasnt tired anymore, she looked up and saw the person she had longed to see for 15 years, and he was standing in front of her, the exact same way he had looked before he disappeared.

"Yoko...?"

Yoko grinned and nodded.

Yoko had returned.

well Yoko has returned, took him long enought.
next chapter: the reunion
how will Serenity react to her brother's sudden apearence, and is she willing to get out of Hiei's embrace? to tell ya the truth I wouldnt, I would tell Yoko hold on. .

SugarHigh01: thanks Rebecca, i'm glad you liked, since your like the only one who reviewed.