A giant beam of light woke Hiei with a start. He immediately headed for the beam at full speed while still waking up and trying to figure out what was causing it. He was at full speed and had gotten to the cause before he could blink. A girl was in the direct path of the beam. It didn't take Hiei but a fragment of a second to decide his course of action. He ran towards the girl and picked her up without hesitation, dodging the beam of energy by a millisecond. He noted to himself that the girl smelled of smoke, alcohol, and demon and decided to drop her on her ass. He turned towards the demon that had released the beam of energy. "Would you like to explain why it was necessary to break our laws for this half-rate demon?" he growled, fatigue slowly leaving his voice.

"Half-rate?!" Mai protested as she stood up rubbing her swore butt.

The demon took a step back recognizing the angry little fire demon, "H-hiei… uh… I'm s-sorry, she just l-looked so… d-delicious!"

"That excuse is invalid," Hiei's voice was malicious as he unsheathed his sword and pointed it towards the demon. He began to say something again, but Hiei had no patience. Hiei vanished and reappeared on the other side of the demon, his sword was coated in black blood. The demon whimpered for a moment then fell apart into two cleanly split pieces. Hiei stood from his crouched position and re-sheathed his sword.

Mai stared at the pieces of demon in awe and silence.

"Half-rate," Hiei turned to Mai.

Mai snapped her head up to face Hiei, "Stop calling me that!"

"You should get back to the temple," he paused to add emphasis, "Half-rate."

Mai rolled her eyes and huffed, "I would if I knew the way."

"Hn," Hiei replied superiorly, or annoyed, and started walking away.

Mai made a grunt and folded her arms, "How do you know where I'm supposed to be anyways?"

Hiei ignored the question and continued walking until he was almost lost to the darkness, "If you want to live through the night, I suggest you hurry it up, half-rate."

Mai glared at him but after a moment decided it was best to follow him. She kicked a rock and jogged to catch up. She fumbled through her pockets for her lighter and cigarettes as she followed Hiei silently though the forest. She finally got one into her mouth and lit it, slipping the pack and lighter back into her pocket. She took a long drag and studied the little demon intently, "So, who are you?"

"Hn," he grunted simply and ignored her question again as he continued to walk.

"Ok, Hn, how do you know I came from the temple?" Mai continued.

"Half-rate," Hiei growled, "If you don't shut up, I'll silence you myself."

"Ooooh, scary," Mai teased, "If you're so eager to hurt me, why'd you save me?"

Hiei didn't even say 'Hn' this time.

"Alright fine," Mai made a "Hn" of her own and flicked the butt of her cigarette into the darkness and folded her arms as they continued walking.

Kurama rubbed his temples and took another sip out of his coffee mug, "headaches," he murmured to himself as thunder started to roll over the house. This made him pause in his tracks, "Well that's not right," he said looking up at the ceiling as if he could see through it. Not only was it supposed to be a clear night, but the energy I'm sensing is enormous. He walked out onto the back patio and looked up into the sky. Far off in the distance he saw a huge bolt of lightning crash down into the earth as another wave of thunder started to roll. Well, there aren't any clouds… He stood there for a moment calculating before taking off in the direction of the thunder and lightning.

"Hey, Suichi! Wait, it's about to rain!" His step-brother called from the back door. "Oh, never mind," he sighed, far too used to the randomness of his older step-brother by now.

"WHAT?!" Yusuke gawked at Jin.

"What part of that confused you, Yusuke?" Koenma deadpanned at the drunken Mazoku.

"You lost me at the 'battle against light and dark' part," Kuwabara offered stupidly.

"Arg, it's simple," Jin huffed while folding his arms, "Me sister is about to go toe-t-toe with me dad an' only one of 'em is comin' out alive." He furrowed his brows while contemplating the situation again to himself, "I'm no match for the lot'o them," he admitted softly after a moment of silence.

"So, what am I supposed to do?" Yusuke slapped his hands down on his knees. He and Jin were sitting Indian style next to each other while Koenma, Kuwabara, Chu, and Touya stood opposite of them discussing the situation.

"Stop Jin's father, obviously," Koenma answered with a hint of annoyance at the drunken fighters.

"How?" Yusuke groaned.

"Blast your stupid spirit gun at him!" Koenma yelled, losing his cool.

"I get that," Yusuke deadpanned, "Won't they be flying around in the sky at crazy speeds?"

"Yeah, no doubt abou' it," Jin replied for Koenma, "I remember when me sister took me and escaped into the Human World. Me father killed our mother with one hit an' then he started after us. He seemed ta really enjoy tossin' me sister into the air and then smashin' her back down ta the ground. If it weren't for a friend'o our mother's, we'd both have died back then with our mother." His face grew more contorted as he recalled the traumatizing event.

Yusuke studied his Irish friend for a moment before shooting up into a standing position, "Well, what are we waiting for?!" he boomed.

"Just how much have you had to drink?" Hiei's voice growled to the room.

"Eh, Hiei?" Yusuke asked stupidly looking for him and finding him at the doorway next to Mai.

"MAI!" Chu cheered and ran to hug his little sister.

"That explains a lot," Hiei muttered then turned back to Yusuke, "This battle you fools are talking about has already happened."

"What?!" Yusuke and Jin shouted together.

"Hn," Hiei grunted and took off back towards the forest.

"Morrigan!" Jin shouted and took off.

"Hey wait!" Yusuke took off after Jin.

Koenma watched as Kuwabara and the rest of the gang took off after Jin and Yusuke. Once he was in silence he spoke aloud to himself, "Morrigan… the Irish war goddess? Well that can't be right."

Jin took off from the ground and led the way for Yusuke and the rest of the gang down the great temple stairs. It wasn't a few seconds after that Jin abruptly halted causing Yusuke to almost fall, "Hey, what's that for?" he yelled rubbing his head that had just recently plummeted into Jin's back.

"Morrigan," Jin whispered as a man caring someone in his arms came into view walking up the temple stairs.

"Kurama?" Yusuke gasped as he picked up on the energy coming from the man.

Kurama had finally reached stairs that were flooded with moonlight and the gang could see that he was holding an unconscious woman covered in blood and dirt. Her dark auburn curls covering most of his right arm, "She's still alive, but barely," were his dismal greeting words.

A/N: I'd apologize for it being so short, but I'm sure there are only four people reading this XD so to the four people I've listed below, I'm sorry. You'll enjoy the next one, lots of dialog and lots of characters.

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