A/N: Okay, so I know that the beginning of this is odd and not very good but I would like it you would read it all the way through, and if you're really nice you could read my other stories, but I don't want any flames. My next order of business is to tell you that it's Botan telling the story. I couldn't find a place to fit her name in this so that it still sounded right.

1. LIGHTS

From a young age Kazuma Kuwabara has been able to see things that other people can't, not just ghosts but what he calls auras. He explained it to me, a long time ago. The way he worded it...I still remember. He said that everyones aura was different, he'd never seen an adult with the same colored aura as someone else before. In fact, the only time he had was when he was in the hospital and had passed the Maternity Ward.

Infants all had the same color aura, a stark clean white. He said that it was because they hadn't seen the real world yet, they hadn't been exposed to anything. As you grow, your aura changes and darkens, never straying from it's original color just changing shades, only turning black when you died. He also told me about the Rekai Tentai's auras.

When he first met them, their auras were different from what they are now. Hiei's had been a dark red, almost black in color, while Kurama's was always changing. Sometimes it would be a light pink, signifing that he was closer to being Suichi, while other times it would be a deep purple, which ment he was closer to being Yoko. Yusuke had a sky blue aura that had been different than anything else, it was the same clear blue that he had had since they first met.

The funny thing about auras was that they could change. They reflected a persons expierence and their out-look on life. The closer to neon your aura was, the brighter your out-look on life was, which meant that if your out-look on life darkened or lightened, you aura changed to match it. I couldn't help myself when I heard this, I asked him how the teams auras had changed.

He told me that Kurama's hadn't changed much, it still switched between two colors but the colors themselves were different shades, a darker pink and a lighter purple. Hiei's had lightened too, the once near-black red was now a deep burgundy. And then the strangest look crossed his face and he was already walking away when he told me that Yusuke's was still 'That same uncaring blue he's always had.' And it's only now, all these years later, that I'm realizing he never told me what his aura looked like. The sad thing is...I think I already know.