Jeezy Peasy!

The land was beautiful. The sky was magnificent. The air was clean. The river and water gurgled happily and sparkled in the friendly sunshine. Jin noted that this must have been what Lydia meant by home. He didn't dare say anything so random because of their current position.

"Hey, why does the fox get to stay out?" Yusuke glared, highly upset.

"You're Kurama is allowed to roam because he is just that, a fox. He has curiosity," she smiled and played with his hair. Kurama didn't let his distaste show on his face. He looked back at his friends and when she turned away, stared every one of them down. "I think it's fair enough to let one prisoner out, after all, you haven't caused any real harm," she pet the basilisk and sent it down in its burrow. The small confrontation rocked the ground.

She waved a hand over the upturned mess and the whole covered itself up again, nice, green, and lush. It matched the rest of the land once more.

"Besides, if he tried something he'd be dead long before he completed what ever it was."

Kurama shuttered and studied the witch woman again. What was she going to do with them?

"What do you want from us?" Kuwabara beat him to it.

"I'm curious to know what you're doing here… and I won't let you go until my guest arrives."

"Who?"

"My own… personal guest," she smiled again and covered her mouth with a chuckle. She seemed to drift over to the stump by the river bank. She sat there and patted her hair. She hummed lightly and watched the water, waiting.

"Are you sure you could best Kurama?" Yusuke asked after several minutes. She glanced up at him uncaringly.

"Positive."

"Kurama, do you think you could use one of your plant tricks? There's plenty to go around here. We've been here three hours for you to figure something out." Kurama looked over the wondrous landscape fondly.

"Unfortunately, Yusuke," Kurama informed gravely, "even if I did have an idea, which in fact I do, I can not move from this spot. I can't move at all, actually."

Yusuke shuddered at Kurama's smile. "What are you talking-" Yusuke choked when he finally saw it. Kurama's body was rooted to the ground with barbed wire and plants. Horrible looking spiders crawled over his body, tiny, but he felt that they were highly poisonous by the way Kurama stood still. Snakes wiggled up his friend's pant leg and restrained him there while others looped around his arms and waist. He looked over to Shota who smiled to herself.

"I'll kill you!" Yusuke shouted, an aura surrounded his index finger, "I'll shoot!"

"You'll miss," her cocky, unperturbed reply struck him. Someone certainly was taking extra measures to make sure safety was the number one. "I thought you say he could roam!"

"That was before you told him to hurt me."

"I never ordered him to do anything! Even if I did, he's on his own time to do what he wants! It's just perfect that he always ends up helping us!"

"Which is what I can't have," she shrugged.

"Where's the wizard?" Genkai brought up.

"He's away."

"Away where?"

She didn't answer.

"Touya?"

"Yes, Jin?" he whispered.

"Look above tha pretty witch, eh? Wha do ya make o tha?" Touya stared in earnest at the dark sky ahead.

"But it was… calm a minute ago… nice."

"Yes, it wos… ma turn," the Irish mop of red hair slipped behind the others. The wind began to turn heavily.

Shota looked up. An upset expression crossed her smug features. She glared back over the group and snapped, "Don't think I didn't see that!" She raised her arms above and the wind howled violently. The trees bended painfully and the grass soon looked like the river, flowing and relentlessly moving.

"NO!" the woman cried. The sky cleared up again and the witch woman's disheveled hair fell back straight down over her shoulders.

"It's much prettier this way," she explained.

"And quieter," Hiei grunted. Shota waltzed over to the bubble Hiei sat down in. He'd already tried his might to burst the thing, and was furious that it didn't give at all. There were three bubbles.

Hiei in one to himself for his skills that Shota didn't want anyone to aid, the second was shared between Jin, Touya, and Yusuke, while the third housed Genkai and Kuwabara.

"You know, you're pretty cute to." Hiei opened his red eyes to glare at Shota. She smirked.

"Ah, an what abou me?" Jin asked. She walked over to them.

"You?" Yusuke and Touya backed up. "You're just a pretty wonder aren't you? The amusing one?"

"HA!" Shota gasped and fell backward.

With the aid of Yusuke's spirit gun, Touya's ice shards cut the shield. Kuwabara's dimension sword sliced open his and Genkai's spirit wave came to visibility. "That's why I couldn't sense the trouble," Shota pouted toward the old woman.

"Anyone going to get me out?" Hiei threatened menacingly.

"Tornado fist!" Jin's serious face was on.

He'd just about slammed a whirlwind into Shota's face when an electrical line shot him back into Kuwabara. The same purple electiricity captured Hiei's prison bubble and lifted it in the air.

"Lydia!"

"Don't touch her!" Lydia warned. Yukina and Boton were up against the rock faced entrance behind her at the mouth of the tunnel that led to the area Shota had gathered them. They didn't seem to be frightened, but they didn't watch what happened either. Danika had her arm extended, the source of the weird lightning. Lydia said something to Danika and she threw Hiei over into the trees.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?"

"Calm down, Yusuke."

"And who the hell are you?" Yusuke didn't trust her.

"Danika Falls, the one who is to help you escape," she quirked a thin, dark eyebrow.

Shota wasted no time in gaining her calm composure. The boys, minus Hiei, and Genkai were all strapped to the ground where they stood the same way Kurama was. Boton and Yukina were grabbed by a tree and screamed.

"What will it be, Lydia? Heads? Or Tails?" Shota punched the air.

Danika fell to the valley floor screaming. Lydia looked down over the rock face where she'd fallen down the path with a look of horror. "Lydia! Cover your ears! Don't look at her! AHHHHHH!" Danika's shriek caused the birds to fly far away. Everything in Lydia's vision suddenly went black.

"W-what?" she swayed unsurely. She could hear Shota's laugh, Boton and Yukina's panicked struggling, Danika's howls of agony, and the shouts of her friends and comrades.

"What are you doing to her?" she heard Touya's ice cold voice lash out.

She fell to her knees, and knew she was on the ground… but felt that she wasn't stopping. The black abyss surrounding her was depthless and just that, black. She couldn't see a thing, though she could hear it all. A woman's voice rang out above everything, echoed in her skull.

"You knew when you came back you'd have to redeem yourself through consequences. Did you think I would forget?"

"N- NO!" Lydia shouted. She cupped her ears. 'This is a horrible head ache coming on. Please stop!' "AHHHH!" she screamed.

She'd soon found that any thought she had rang out as clear as Shota's cutting edge diction. "I must be in my head," Lydia realized.

"Very good," the sneer made her shudder.

"I don't deserve this," she shook her head, tears welling in her eyes.

"No, you don't… but you're trapped," Shota's amused chuckle reverberated inside Lydia's mind and all around her precious valley.

"NOOOOO! AHHHHHH!" Lydia shrieked in a protest of agony. Her head was splitting, ears were ringing, and her body felt cold and numb. She looked up into the black heavens and let her energy free. A large volcanic blast of white fire, fury, orange lightning, and dark confession shot out from her body and all around her personal hell.

Hiei looked up from where he lay in a deep thicket.

"What is going on!" he wondered aloud to himself. He heard a giggle from behind him.

What kind of trouble is Hiei in?!