Author's Notes: I'm going to introduce the characters here, so you'll feel like you already know each character. Hope you like them.

Oh, and to mention something else!  I recently came across this absolutely adorable picture of Hiei. It's from a site that had a page called the Temple of Dark Tears. It's Hiei with a cut on his cheek, and undoubtedly some bruises, looking like he's about to break down or something. I wonder if it is an out-take from a scene on the show, personally.

Main Characters:

Mychela Averys: A motorcycle street-racer/hacker/fighter/smartass with a huge attitude problem. She's five-ten with long black hair that she prefers braided 'Duo-style,' as she calls it. Unknown to her, the man she has called 'Father' for seventeen years isn't her true father. She was conceived illegitimately during one of her mother's periods of infidelity.

Normally, she wears baggy black jeans and a skin-tight shirt. If she's fighting or racing, she wears a leather biker's outfit that she had custom made. She's very protective of her bike and her laptop. Her bike is black with blue script on the tail reading: 'I am your Bane. Respect me and maybe you will live.'

She loves Yu Yu Hakusho, Gundam Wing, Dragonball Z/GT, and Yu-Gi-Oh on TV. She likes Blade of the Immortal, Diary of a Demon King (Demon Diary to you Americans!), Shaman King, Priest, Rebirth, and Sailor Moon in manga. In other words, this chick keeps her time occupied with Japanese anime and manga. She is in a band called Heralds and is called the Herald of Doom. Other nicknames include Bane, Sonic Boom, Blur, and Queen Bitch.

Kurama- AKA: Shuuichi Minamoto: A kitsune youkai and bishounen from the anime, Yu Yu Hakusho. Always calm and peaceful, he can be funny at times. When he transforms himself into a supernatural being, he is mysterious but beautiful. He's one of Mychela's favorite characters.

Hiei Jaganshi: Mychela's other favorite character from Yu Yu Hakusho. A hi youkai and a dangerous bishounen, he's to be treated with respect, unless one wishes to die.

Side Characters:

Grace Bristol: One of Mychela's best friends who insists that Kurama and Hiei are gay. Grace is from Venezuela and despises her current residence in the United States. She wishes to go home to her family's estanca.

She's a member of the Heralds and is the Herald of Light. Other nicknames are Crazy, Ningen, and Light.

Arelia Jones: Mychela's other best friend who is reserved and prefers to be silent and continue to embroider until Grace brings up Kurama and Hiei's supposed relationship. Then things get ugly. Arelia is from South Africa and is glad to be in the U.S.

She is a member of Heralds and is the Herald of Fire. She's also known as Gwen, Fire, and Death.

Chapter One: Why Am I Here?

She woke up suddenly and felt the hand over her mouth. She started to curse in Spanish at the stranger. In the background, 'My Immortal' was playing softly.

"Shhh!" he hissed. Then, she recognized his voice.

She knew that he wouldn't hurt her. She was a ningen and he had a weakness about ningens considering Shiori was one. She relaxed slowly.

"Good. We're getting somewhere. Now, come with me," whispered the emerald-eyed bishounen.

"Umm… I'm indecent. I'm in my nightgown."

He blinked and his eyes widened. "Oh. Sorry. Change into something."

"Am I going to be fighting?"

"Probably."

"Right." She nodded and went over to her closet, pulling out several outfits and stuffing them in her duffel bag. Then, she placed her laptop in on top. She grabbed a set of her 'This isn't exactly a special occasion, but I still want to stand out' suits.

And ran to the bathroom.

No way in hell I'm changing in my bedroom with that youkai in there. Even if he has never been classified as a hentai, he's friends with hentais and I'm not risking it, she thought, amused, yet unamused, as she pulled on her blue jeans.

Kuso! I left my boots in my room. Oh well, perhaps it will be alright if I do that in there. I mean, what's he going to see? My scarred legs.

She was self-conscious of those scars. Gotten fighting and racing, but still…

She re-entered her room and saw the kitsune looking at her bag with a bemused expression.

"Let me put on my boots and inform Mother that I'm leaving and I'll be ready to go," she said. "Alright?"

He snapped out of his daze. "Yes. Yes, whatever you just said."

"You're crazy, nino. Very crazy." Then, she saw what he had been staring at. It was a picture she'd had her friend, Light, embroider into one side of the bag.

Five hours earlier-Meiou High:

"Kurama, we have a mission for you, personally," Botan said via the communicator he kept hidden in his conveniently long hair.

"Right. What?"

"We need you to retrieve this girl," Botan replied.

A image flashed in his mind. A black-haired girl on a black bike with blue writing on the tail. Her silver eyes glimmered.

Another one.

This time, she was with another woman, older, probably her mother, in the mall, looking disinterested and above all of the things she was surrounded by.

A third.

She had a bass guitar strapped on, hair loose, and was about to slam down. Her mouth was open, as if she were about to sing.

He raised an eyebrow. "Send Yuusuke," he told Botan.

"No can do. He's busy in the Makai working on everything he needs to take care of there. He's working with Yomi, I think," Botan provided. "Plus, she would be more likely to trust you than Yuusuke."

He rolled his eyes. "Why?"

"She already knows you," Botan said from the safety of the Reikai. Then, she closed the link.

Feeling slightly used, he stepped through the opening portal.

Mychela's house-Present time:

A picture of Youko Kurama.

Youko had obviously been fighting, for he was bruised, tunic torn, and several cuts. In the background was Youko, hands outstretched, eyes glaring red. A powerful, threatening pose.

Then again, Youko was anything but nice.

At least he hasn't seen the other sides. The one of him at the Dark Tournament, messed up and hurt by that psycho guy's make-up. Or the one of him in the tree with Hiei. She sighed. Perhaps I can play it off.

"So, this is what Botan meant when she said that you knew me. I understand now," he murmured.

She hit the volume and pressed 'back' to hear 'My Immortal' again. This was, no doubt, not going to be easy.

I guess I can forget playing it off, then, she thought as she shrugged. "It's no biggie. I enjoy the anime and one of my friends said that she could embroider any picture I gave her into the bag. I dared her and she won. It's a nice picture, though."

 "Mychela! Are you up, yet?!" yelled her mother from downstairs.

Remembering Kurama's weakness of loud noises, she turned down the volume and exited the room before shouting, "Yes! I'm leaving in five!" Then, she returned to her room.

"Thank you," he said.

"No biggie. Ready?"

"Yes." He moved to make a portal.

"No. Not a portal. Not here, at least. My mother is expecting to hear me roaring off on my 'damned machine' as she calls it. Can you go back outside and ring the doorbell like you're expecting me to give you a ride to school?"

He nodded and left. She grabbed her CD/MP3 player and several CDs, like Evanesence's Fallen, Linkin Park's Hybrid Theory and Meteora, and M2M's Shades of Purple. About two minutes later, she heard the doorbell. She grabbed her bag and yelled out the window. "Coming!!"

She ran downstairs, putting in Meteora, and opened the door. "Ah, Shuuichi! I've been expecting you. C'mon, then," she ordered, leading the way to the garage.

Once there, she removed the tarp over her bike and started the engine. "Hop on," she said, putting in her earphones and pressing 'play' for track number thirteen, 'Numb.'

'I'm tired of being what you want me to be/Feeling so faithless/Lost under the surface/I don't know what you're expecting of me/Put under the pressure/Of walking in your shoes'

He did so, and she raced off.

In the middle of the street, a portal opened and she didn't veer so she would miss it. Instead, she hoped that the Reikai had unscuffable floors.

Reikai-Present time:

She stepped out of the portal and wondered where in the hell was her bike. She loved her bike. She pressed 'pause.'

After a second's thought, she pressed 'stop.'

Then, she began to wonder exactly how much she was supposed to know. Was she permitted to use all of her knowledge, or was she to play stupid for a little while?

Oh, well. I guess I'll find out when I reach Koenma's office. Even I know how to find Koenma's office! she decided, walking away.

"Oi! Chotto matte yo!" Kurama yelled.

She winced, but waited.

"Listen, I just saw all of the pictures on your bag. I don't know how you know me and Hiei, but we aren't like that."

She grinned and began to walk again. "Well, that's one of my friend's stretch of imagination. I never really thought you or Hiei were gay. Now, I won't say that I haven't read some pretty terrific lemon yaoi stories about the two of you and enjoyed them, but I never really agreed with them."

"Lemon?" he queried.

"Erm…" She blushed. "Graphic male/male sex," she said in a rush.

He stopped her. "You're joking, right?"

"Nope!"

He moaned. "So much for that hope."

She smiled at his pained expression. "Don't worry. I wrote a yaoi song-fic once, but it wasn't a lemon." A slight pause. "If you get Hiei to promise not to murder me on the spot, I'll show it to you. Along with the Yuusuke/Yukina story I wrote and got flamed for."

"Hiei would kill you for that."

She thought for a second before paling. "Oh. You're right."

"Do you know about-"

"Hiei and Yukina?" He nodded. "Yeah. They're sister and brother, but Kuwabara keeps thinking that Hiei's trying to make moves and that Yukina's a female player."

"Player?"

"Normally a guy who dates more than one girl at a time."

He raised an eyebrow. "Oh. Come on. Koenma's awaiting you."

She grinned at his look of exasperation and exhaustion. "So, what's Koenma calling li'l ol' me in for anyway?"

"None of us know. I didn't ask, to be honest. I was told to come and get you."

She smiled wryly. "Well, if Koenma doesn't provide more information to me, he's shit out of luck."

Kurama raised an eyebrow and opened the door to Koenma's office.

"Ah, Miss Averys. I've been expecting you," said the teenaged Koenma.