Shi: Alright, took me a few days, but I finally started on it and even finished it! All in one night! Go me! Anyways.. we don't own Yu Yu Hakusho or Sesshy.. but, we do enjoy writing this fic, so review and tell us what you think!

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Yusuke grumbled as he read the directions he'd been told by Genkai until he saw the aging psychic waiting at the base of a towering, old Sakura tree. Uneasily, he glanced around as he made his way over to Genkai. With a small shudder, thoughts of the Dark Tournament flashed through his head. He was half expecting a demon to jump out at him at any minute. It wasn't unreasonable, however, because he saw a few dead demons laying on the ground. Apparently, Genkai had to do something to keep her busy while waiting on Yusuke.

"There you are," Genkai stated in aggrivation as Yusuke stood in front of her, "what took you so long, Dimwit?" she snapped.

"Oh nothing much, you hag, I just had to cross the country and an entire ocean to get here!" Yusuke growled in response. "Now, what's up? Why are we here?" he asked glancing around.

"The temple was attacked earlier, and Takara and Kurama fled with Shuku to some Sakura tree. Takara sent the message, but there are many possible Sakura trees, so we split up in groups: Mizuki and Touya heading for the Trio's Rekai house, me and you here, Hiei and Jin to Koenma's garden, and Sesshoumaru is staying behind at the temple to take care of Aki and Jamie."

"Oh," Yusuke said once he blinked and comprehended everything. "Well, should we start looking then?"

"I think that's the best idea you've ever had," Genkai sneered and spun on her heel, stalking off to look.

Yusuke took a moment to process that then he glared at the psychic. "Hey!" he exclaimed, "You old hag! What do you mean by that?!" He chased after her, yelling and scowling, but Genkai gave him no notice, ignoring him.

Meanwhile, Hiei and Jin waltzed into Spirit World and made a beeline for Koenma's garden. Hiei pushed through any guards they met and didn't let anyone stop him, and he kept silent.

Jin followed after Hiei and anxiously laughed and apologized to the ones Hiei ran into or pushed out of the way. "You real'y t'ink 's a good idea ta be plowin' t'rough everybody?" the wind master asked the small fire demon as he caught up to Hiei.

"Hn," Hiei replied nonchalantly and continued on his way until the two were in the middle of the garden, where there stood a proud, tall Sakura tree.

"Woa'," Jin whislted as he looked up, attempting to see the tree's peak. It was useless, however, seeing how tall the tree was, "now t'at's a big tree alrig't..."

"Yes, it's tall, I see that," Hiei glared at the wind master as he spoke, "just start looking." He stomped off, using his Jagan to check the Sakura tree out.

Jin sighed. Hiei could be so hard to deal with at times. "Alrig', alrig', no need ta get yer turban in a knot," the wind master grumbled, earning another scowl from Hiei. "Er.. yea', so.. I'll j'ss go take a peek in t'e 'igher branches," he mumbled and used his mastery over the wind to fly up and search through the tree limbs.

"What in the world are you doing?" Koenma snapped, walking up to Hiei with an impatient look on his face. "This is my private garden," he told the fire demon, as if it explained everything.

"Hn, if you must know, we're looking for the half breed, Youko, and the human faucet," Hiei said in reply, not sparing even a small glance at the Prince of the Spirit World.

"And why would you be looking for them? Let alone here in my garden?" Koenma inquired and tapped his foot impatiently on the ground.

Hiei didn't answer or even acknowledge he had heard the prince, but Koenma did get his answer, along with a good scare as Jin floated down and spoke brightly, his ears twitching as he landed behind the prince, "Oi, Koenma! I can tell ya t'at!"

Koenma jumped a foot into the air in fright when he heard that. He flung himself around to face Jin. "You scared me, you idiot! Don't do that!" he shouted at the wind master, whose ears flinched at the shrill sound of the voice and made Jin wince.

"Ya didn' have ta shout, mate," Jin muttered and rubbed his ears, "mah poor ears..."

"Alright, sorry, but what are you two doing here?" Koenma asked again.

"We're here lookin' for Takara, Youko, an' Shuku," Jin said.

"Why?" Koenma inquired as his brow twitched.

"Cause, t'e temple was attacked, an' t'e t'ree took off ta some Sakura tree... So we gotta look for 'em," Jin explained and shook some leaves out of his hair that he'd managed to attract while flying through the branches.

"Apparently, they're not here, either," Hiei stated suddenly, disgruntled at having wasted his time looking.

"Oh," Koenma blinked, "alright then. That's fine. But, really, Hiei, did you have to push past all of my security? Whatever happened to saying please?"

There was a short silence until Hiei said, "You're joking, right?" Jin started to chuckle, and Koenma just sighed and told the fire demon to forget it. Then, the prince tromped off, already tired of dealing with, by then smirking, Hiei and the wind master.

Mizuki and Touya soon arrived at the Trio's house in Reikai to look around. As they wandered over the grounds and towards the Sakura tree in the backyard, Mizuki let out a soft sigh.

"What's wrong?" Touya asked the wolf demoness upon hearing her sigh.

"Hm?" Mizuki seemed to come out of a daze and looked at the ice demon, "Oh, sorry, just thinking about some old memories," she stated with a serene smile on her face. "I've missed this place."

"It's a very beautiful place," Touya nodded as he spoke, looking at all the types of plants and the house that sat proud on the level green grass.

"Haha, yeah," Mizuki giggled and ran forward a few feet before twirling around a few times, her arms thrown wide. "Boy have I missed it..." She took a deep breath through her nose then stopped and looked alert.

"What is it?" Touya asked, on the alert when he noticed Mizuki tense and her smile fall to a frown.

Mizuki held up a hand as a silent sign to be quiet for a minute, and he remained quiet, watching as the wolf demoness sniffed at the air. Apparently, she had caught a scent. "What do you smell?" Touya whispered, ready to fight at a moment's notice.

Mizuki grinned, "I smell them," she said, "Takara, Youko, and even little Shuku! They are here! Come on!" she exclaimed and grabbed a surprised Touya's arm and began to yank him towards the backyard Sakura tree. However, halfway to the tree, she stopped again as she sensed something else.

Not expecting it, Touya ran straight into her. "Oh, sorry," he apologized, but when he saw the look on her face, he asked, "What do you sense?"

"Well, let's just say that we're not the only ones who found them," Mizuki mumbled, and Touya nodded, understanding when he too felt the enemy.

The sound of tree branches splintering and breaking, falling with heavy thuds to the ground came from the tree. Mizuki and Touya looked to one another and took off to the tree without another word as Takara's energy spiked, showing that she too realized the enemy had found them, and found them quickly too...

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Shi: Alright, I know, short.. and I'm sorry! I'll try to work on it and see if I can't make my future chapters longer... lol. Anyways, see you guys next chapter!