DarkNinjaAyane- Ok. uh... im sorta new to dis so plz tell how u like it...

Disclaimer- I do not own yyh (sadly) or any of the characters except for my ninjas.

Mission Over Mission- A Ninja Detective

Yusuke and the gang were coming back after completing there mission, Yusuke and Kuwabara were pretty hurt. Kurama didn't have too many injuries while Hiei didn't have as much as a scratch on him. They were walking to the portal when a little boy in a red ninja outfit stepped in their way. He had light brown hair and orange eyes. He just stared at the detectives while they stared back.

"Could ya move kid?" Yusuke asked irritated.

The little boy didn't respond but continued to stare at them. Hiei glared at the little boy who was frightened by it but still he didn't move. He looked at each one of them and finally spoke.

"You're trespassing in our territory! Get out!"

"Yeah yeah. We're goin. Just get outta our way," Kuwabara said to the little boy.

He still didn't move. Hiei was almost beyond irritated by this boy already. He glared hard at the boy and then drew his katana halfway when the little boy was called.

"Katsu!!" someone shouted.

Katsu and the gang looked over in the direction they heard the voice from and that's when they finally notice the village right beside them.

"Come here!!" an old man shouted. He looked around seventy. His hair was almost gray and he had chocolate brown eyes.

The little boy obediently walked over to the old man and bowed. The old man glared at the little boy with anger flaring in his eyes.

"Do you seriously think she will come back alive, Katsu? That mission was far too intense for her to even begin with!" the old man yelled. "She won't make it back alive! You'd be lucky if that happens! You'll gain nothing good from her! I don't believe in her! I don't see why you do! Now get back inside and continue your training! I'll come inform you when the team comes back without her!"

He smacked the boy on the back pushing him inside the village gate. Yusuke, Kurama, and Kuwabara were shocked at how he treated the young boy. After all, he only looked about five or so. The old man turned to look at the gang finally noticing them. His glare that he used on the boy was now warm and friendly.

"Excuse me young lads, you are trespassing in our village's territory," he stated. "May I ask what business you have here?"

"We were just passing by," Kurama answered.

"Oh my! I see you have some injuries. Come and rest at the village for a while," the old man insisted.

"It's quite alright sir. We must get going," Kurama protested.

The old man kept insisting until Kurama finally gave in and agreed to stay. They soon learned that he was one of the three elite ninjas. His name was Gosuma Imaru.

"My name is Kurama," Kurama said introducing himself.

"Urameshi Yusuke."

"Kuwabara Kazuma."

Imaru looked over at Hiei who didn't bother introducing himself. Kurama cleared his throat trying to signal Hiei to introduce himself but Hiei ignored it. He sighed to himself.

"My apologies, this is Hiei. He doesn't like to talk much," Kurama said.

Imaru nodded in acknowledgement. A few moments later, a young female ninja came in and bowed down.

"Imaru-sama, they've returned," she informed.

"Thank you Jiruma," Imaru replied as he got up and went outside towards the village gate.

There was a group of five ninjas walking in. Katsu was there hugging a girl who pulled down her mask revealing her beautiful face. She had very light sandy brown hair very light, pale, blue eyes. They were so light and pale it almost had a mixture of gray in it.

"You made it! I knew you would!" Katsu exclaimed in joy.

She smiled Katsu and so did the other ninjas except one of them, but the smiles quickly vanished when they noticed Imaru walking towards them. Imaru glared with absolute hatred in his eyes at the young girl. Katsu hid behind the girl and the gang stayed a few feet away. Imaru walked up to the girl and swung his arm forcefully connecting hard with the girl's beautiful face. The four ninjas, Katsu, and the gang gasped. The villagers all turned to watch what was happening.

"Why are you still alive!?" Imaru yelled furiously. "When will you die and leave us alone!? You're nothing but a burden to the village! No-one wants you here other than Katsu who is too young to understand what you are and what's best for him!! Do you even know how much you are unwanted and despised here!? You are nothing more than an unwanted piece of trash full of nothing but trouble that won't be discarded!!"

Imaru stomped off angrily as the villagers glared at the young girl and walked away whispering. The four ninjas ran to catch up to Imaru to talk to him while Katsu ran to talk to the girl. The gang stood where they were, close enough to hear both of the conversations. Imaru's conversation came first.

"Imaru-sama!" one of the ninjas called.

"What!?" shouted the angry old man.

"Did you have to embarrass her like that?" came a female voice.

"Yeah. You know she did go on that mission to help the village, to help you," came a male voice this time.

"You're being blinded!" he shouted at the four ninjas and continued stomping off.

They all sighed as they turned around to see Katsu and the young girl about to talk. The gang turned around to look too.

"Why did you let him do that? Why didn't you fight back?" Katsu asked hugging her.

"Because, he's an elite," she answered simply. "To a ninja, we respect these people."

"But he doesn't respect you," mumbled the young boy apparently upset with the elite. "I don't get it! Why does he treat you with so much hatred? He's the one who accepted you into the village? It's not your fault that —"

"It doesn't matter to me," she responded. "All that matters now is that the village is safe for the time being."

The gang, even her four companions and Katsu, stared at her in disbelief. How could she be so forgiving? It was silent for the next few moments.

"You should get going Katsu," the girl said suddenly. "It's getting late."

"Kay," Katsu replied obediently. "See you later than. Bye."

With that the boy was off. The four ninjas sighed once again. They finally turned to meet the four visitors.

"Hey. You guys guests? From the way Imaru-sama was earlier, I don't think he'll remember to give you a place to stay. You should stay with us for the time being," one of them said inviting them to stay.

"Thank you," Kurama thanked. "I believe we haven't introduced ourselves yet. My name is Kurama." The gang introduced themselves with Kurama introducing Hiei for him once more.

"My name's Itake Hiro," he said. Hiro had pale forest green hair and dark sandy brown hair. (like when sand gets wet but a little sharper and darker)

"Sagami Kohira," said a girl with bright yellow hair and bright green eyes.

"Takeru Keta," came a reply from a girl with light purple and yellow eyes.

"Madato Hayate," he said quietly. He had cool light bluish-grayish hair and light gray eyes.

The eight of them began to walk to the ninjas' place silently. They didn't know what to talk about. Actually, they wanted to talk about the girl, but they thought that wouldn't be the best thing to talk about at the moment.

"What's the problem with the girl?" Hiei asked out of nowhere.

The ninjas except for Hayate stopped and turned to stare at him.

"Hiei!" Kurama shouted as he quickly turned to the ninjas. "I'm sorry! You must excuse him! He didn't mean anything by that!"

"Everything," Hayate said quietly answering Hiei's question before the other ninjas could respond to Kurama's apology.

"Hayate!" Kohira shouted at him as the ninjas glared at him and the detectives looked him oddly.

Hayate didn't look at them but continued to walk. The group fell silent and it stayed that way until they reached the ninjas' home. It was pretty big, a little bigger than an average house. It had five bedrooms on the upper level, a restroom in each bed room and three others in the house. It also had a living room, kitchen, dining room, and a basement.

"Thank you for allowing us to stay," Kurama thanked. "Are you sure it's alright?"

"Yeah, it'll be fine," Keta answered.

Keta, Kohira, and Hiro sat down on one of the five couches in the living room. Hayate stood with his hands in his pockets, leaning against the wall.

"Please, have a seat," Kohira invited.

"Thank you," Kurama said as he, Yusuke, and Kuwabara took a seat. Hiei stood with his hands in his pockets.

"Hiei, right?" Kohira asked directing the question to Hiei. "Don't you wanna sit?"

"No," Hiei simply answered.

Hiei noticed Hayate studying him as if he were suspicious of him. He studied Hayate as well. It was silent. The gang felt uncomfortable. The ninjas sensed it so Hiro tried to start up a conversation.

"So… how do you like the village?" he tried.

"It's nice and quiet," Kurama answered.

"What about you three?" Hiro asked Kuwabara, Yusuke, and Hiei who had rarely talked at all.

"It's small," Kuwabara said stupidly.

"Duh, cause it's a village dummy," Yusuke replied. "I think it's really nice. Peace and quiet, something you can never have living in some stupid city."

"It's garbage," Hiei said flatly.

Once again, all of the ninjas turned to stare at him as Kurama threw another glare at him.

"Hiei!" he said between his teeth.

"You'll get use to him," Yusuke said assuringly.

"Yeah. Nothing gets pass his mouth except for junk he doesn't mean," Kuwabara added.

"It really is garbage. Treating one of their own people as if she were some sort of disease," Hiei said emotionlessly.

Three of the ninjas looked down. They knew that what Hiei had said was right. The village was garbage. The little girl helped save the village many times yet everyone hated her. They either acted like she didn't exist or like she was a deadly disease.

"Her name is Sakana Akiya," Hayate said. "She's an outsider that Imaru accepted into the village. Little did he know that she was nothing but bad news. Soon, the village kept being attacked by other ninjas and demons. Many people died because that trash."

"Hayate that's enough!" Hiro shouted.

As soon as Hiro shouted that, he heard a noise coming from the door. The others heard it as well and they all turned around to see the young girl standing there as if frozen in spot. She looked hurt. Kohira, Keta, and Hiro's eyes went wide.

"Oh no…" Kohira whispered to herself.

"A-Akiya, Hayate didn't—" Keta started but didn't get to finish because Akiya ran away.

"Akiya wait!!" Hiro shouted after her. He turned and glared at Hayate angrily. "That's it Hayate!! I've had enough! You're calling her a piece of trash but look at yourself! You're even lower and worse than garbage you hell scum!! Akiya! Wait!!"

Hiro ran out the door after the girl. Kohira and Keta both glared at Hayate before taking off after her.

"Would you like our assistance?" Kurama quickly asked before they went too far.

"It's okay," Keta replied. "This is our problem. You don't need to get involved in such troublesome things. Thanks though."

With that they were off. They caught up with Hiro and decided to split up. After about half an hour of searching, Hiro finally found her.

"Hey! Akiya!" Hiro called.

Akiya quickly turned around and ran away again.

"Akiya, wait!" he called after her.

'I found her!' Hiro telepathically sent to the other three ninjas. A few moments later, they all met up while chasing Akiya. Pretty soon, they were back at the house. Akiya decided to go into the house and get away using the back door but as soon as she swung the door open, she saw Hayate and four other people who she didn't know. Everyone in the house turned to look at her as she went back out the door. The gang ran to the door and watched her as she began to run again. She only ran a couple of steps before Hayate appeared right in front of her, caught her and held her tightly in spot so she couldn't run anymore. She struggled to get free but it was no good. Akiya didn't give up though. She kept trying break free of his strong grip around her.

"Hayate," Hiro said. "Don't hurt her."

"Whatever," was his reply.

He took her inside the house as the gang moved out of the way so Hayate and the struggling girl could go in. The other three ninjas followed in afterward. Hayate took her upstairs and put her in her room sealing the windows and door with talismans. He came back downstairs shortly. Everyone was settled down again and as Keta asked an unexpected question.

"What are you guys?" Keta asked.

"What do you mean? We're human," Kuwabara answered quickly.

"You are, and so is Yusuke, but what about the other two? Kurama and Hiei?" Keta asked. "A normal human wouldn't have that much spirit energy."

"You can sense spirit energy?" Kuwabara asked.

"Of course. Every ninja has natural spirit energy they can use, but it depends on if they want to or not," Kohira answered.

"The five of us are ninja detectives," Hiro said. "Every village has at least two. They are sent out to destroy demons and sometimes eliminate other ninjas that are a threat to their village. These missions are ranked, S being the highest, F being the lowest. We've told you who we are. Now it's your turn."

"We told you, we're just people!" Kuwabara desperately tried to convince them for no apparent reason.

"It's alright Kuwabara," Kurama said assuringly. "You are correct. Hiei and I are demons. Kuwabara and Yusuke are humans. We four are Spirit Detectives. The things we do are similar to yours. We must kill demons, and sometimes humans, to make sure that they do not harm the human race."

"Now that we answered your annoying questions, it's time you answer ours," Hiei stated so that everyone turned to look at him.

"Why do you care all of a sudden Hiei?" Kuwabara asked curiously.

"If you think that I would ever care for the well being of a pathetic ningen, then you are greatly mistaken," Hiei replied coldly.

"Yukina knows her, doesn't she Hiei?" Kurama asked knowingly.

"Hn," was all he replied.

Yukina? Hayate thought.

"Yukina?" Hiro asked his groups' unvoiced question. "The ice maiden of Koorime, Yukina?"

"Correct," Kurama answered. "Would it be alright if we asked about Akiya?"

"She's the way she should be," Hayate answered. His comrades and the gang turned to look at him once more.

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Next Chapter's Preview- Akiya's Pain

Akiya's painful past is revealed to the Spirit Detectives. How will they react to what the young girl has gone through? Is she in pain, even after all these years? A demon attacks the village again. Imaru is the target. What's this? Is Akiya risking her life for a village, and most of all, for someone who despises her so much? And what's this? Botan comes to give the detectives their next mission, and it involves Akiya? Koenma is offering her a chance to get away from her current life and begin a new one as a Spirit World Detective. What will Akiya do? Will she take the offer and abandon her village and the few people who believe in her, or will she turn down the offer and continue living her painful life?