I'm soo sorry for the long wait. I've been really busy with school.
So, without wasting any more precious valuable time, chapter 4!

"What?" Kurama, Hiei, and I both gasped out at the same time.

We stood up abruptly, tripping over wires as we headed frantically out the door. We had to push our way through the orges and people running back and forth with paperwork and orders from Koenma to make it to Shiku's room. There, I opened the door only to be blown back by a massive amount of green Spirit Energy. The doctor told us, when we gave him a weird look, that it was not like this when he left to get us.

My suspicion aroused and I faced the deep green. My hand turned blue and I pulled out a long blue sword from the air. I got as close as I could without being blown back, then sliced the air with my Spirit Sword. I repeated the process, slowly walking against the force that I cut through. It took me about five minutes before I reached the edge of the bed. Just as I had expected, her righ wrist was floating, and a watch was strapped tightly around it. I smirked a little and let myself get blown back out of the room.

I had received a minor cut on my cheek from the pressure and Spirit Energy.

"So?" Kurama asked.

"She'll be fine. She stole one of my inventions that I never really had time to perfect. It'll let her return for about a year I think, to the point in her life when she was the strongest and the healthiest," I said.

Hiei grunted something, "You never really had time to perfect?"

"Yeah. After that one year passes, I don't know what will happen. I was doing this watch project near the time I discovered a way to make my pendant. So my focus turned to that and I never finished the watch," I replied.

"What do you think will happen?" Kurama asked.

The doctor looked anxiestly at me, but I shrugged, "I figured you'd go back to what you were, if not even worse... It puts a lot of strain on the body, to go back in time."

"So she might not survive?" Hiei clarified.

I shrugged once more, "She might not survive the mission at all. But yeah, she might not. That means we have to hurry up and catch Ikuro."

Hiei and Kurama spent the rest of the day looking through some of Koenma's files on the teenagers that followed Ikuro. I wasted my day away filling out paperwork. The next day, Shiku was allowed to get out of her room, so Koenma ordered us to continue our mission and finish it as quickly as possible. We headed back to Greece, all of us, and walked to the townhouse, which, not to my surprise, was burned the ground.

In the news, we all learned that a group of teenagers set the house on fire during the sunset. The fire though was deemed very odd, as it was the color of dark orange, and only that color. Anything that came in contact with the fire would vanish, so the firefighters could not extinguish the house.

"So where are we going to stay?" Kuwabara asked me.

I looked at the map of the city I held and examined the roads. "For one thing, not here. We'll find a nice hotel somewhere and spend the least amount of time there."

-That Afternoon - Hotel -

"Okay, as the temporary leader, I'm in charge and in control of your lives, so, don't go dying on me. Let's make something clear, do not go out alone. Always stay with at least one other person. But we should always stay together in this group, just in case," I said. "Spirit World, as you should have noticed, is so full of energy its hard to get from one place to another without being pushed, shoved, whatever, so we'll only go there for emergencies."

I spread out a map of the city, and then took out the notes I had written down, along with the conclusions Hiei and Kurama came up with. I grabbed a red marker and circled the spot on the map where the hotel was located. Next, with a green marker, I circled an entire street.

"Ikuro and his 'gang' should be living around here, as my spies have finally gathered the necessary information," I said, then with a blue marker, I circled the townhouse location. "These are the three most important places in our case."

"Why is the townhouse important?" Yusuke asked. "It's in ruins and far from any use."

"The group of teenagers will come back to that place. I let them know I had passed by. Here's the plan," I said.

-Lobby-

I sat on the couch with my personal laptop from Spirit World beside me. I was looking at the screen, which displayed numbers that kept on changing. Hiei popped up from behind the couch to stare at the screen, hoping to find something he could pester me about, since he got bored from doing nothing for the entire day.

"What do you want Hiei?" I asked.

"Hn." he just replied.

I pressed one of the many black keys on the keyboard. A couple numbers glowed white and then disappeared. I typed in some replacing numbers. "With Koenma all worried, I thought I'd update the security system, to make him feel better," I said.

"How generous of you," he grunted.

I quickly punched some keys then closed the laptop and stood up, facing Hiei. The clock behind him read one at night, so I decided that I should turn in for the day, since tomorrow, I wanted to head back to the townhouse. I looked at Hiei and was about to say something when I thought otherwise.

-Morning of the Next Day-

"What? WHAT?" I yelled at Kurama. "WHAT??!!"

Kurama put his hands up and shrugged, "I have no idea where he went, don't yell at me!"

"I'm going to kill him!" I yelled.

Shiku walked into the lobby, yawning. "Sana, you're going to wake up the entire hotel. It's not just us you know."

"Shut up!" I grunted, dropping the volume of my voice. "But I swear I'll but his head off if I figure out he disappeared to hunt the teenagers by himself!"

After some discussion on plan changes due to Hiei's disappearance, we headed off to the townhouse, which just like I said, the teenagers were waiting. I smirked and bluntly asked, "Ikuro decided to bail?"

They laughed, "He found this to be a waste of his time. He had something else to do, and told us to take care of the thief. He did not say you would actually bring the Spirit Detectives with you, let alone the dead girl over there."

Shiku spat at them, insulted. "Like that would kill me," she said.

A total of three teens had shown up. Two boys and one girl.

"I'd love to talk some more, but I've got to find Ikuro. So, you'll have to forgive me for making things quick. But before we hurry along, a question that must have an answer. How many of you are there?" I asked.

"Thirteen," the girl replied. "That's thirteen before you can get to Ikuro."

© copyright LahtoriReikna
Next chapter: a little fight. Sana understands what their putting themselves into.
And where did Hiei run off to? I thought he wanted to fight badly... erm... heh.
Disclaimer: I do not own YYH, but Sana, Shiku and Ikuro are my original characters.