I DON'T OWN YYH. Thank you. Please review. (Note Hiei's past is a bitAU to fit with my story)

"I want to see Hiei Jagenshi." The speaker was a pale skinned, blond girl with white angel wings. She wore baggy brown pants with two crisscrossing black leather belts. Each belt had a katana attached to it. The fallen angel, for that's what she seemed to be, was also wearing a white tank top and brown leather backpack. She had an annoyed expression on her face.

"Who are you? Why should I let you see him?" asked a squeaky young voice. The toddler speaking was sitting on a chair, in what seemed to be an office. He was, of course, no ordinary toddler, but the prince of the spirit realm, Koenma. Koenma's face was quite red at this time, most likely in anger at being used as a messenger for someone he considered below him.

"Tell me where he is now," the girl seemed amused. She had pulled out her katana and was holding it to the poor toddlers neck.

"O-okay, yes, I believe he is at the training grounds at the moment. That's..." But the girl had already disappeared.

---------------------------------------------Narly POV------------------------------------------------------------

Standing amongst a cluster of trees was a short boy with spiky black hair. Not standing, exactly. If my eyesight had been that of a human I wouldn't have been able to see him, he was moving so fast. I grinned. I had found him.

"Hey pathetic one! Miss me?" I called out gleefully. Not that I would admit it, but I had sorta missed the dirt bag since I last saw him. "Hiei? Did ya hear me?"

"Unfortunately," replied the vertically challenged demon.

"What? Not happy to see me?" I feigned hurt suprise. "You mean your favorite thieving partner has been replaced! By who? That human you've been forced to work with?" This was going to make him sooo angry.

"That human is worthless, you baka onna!" he shouted angrily. I grinned. It was only I, the queen of anoyingness that could get a rise out of this cold demon.

"Right. And that's how he beat you. But I won't talk about such a tender, tender subject." I said, acting sophisticated and wise.

"Quit with the fake maturity, Narly, it doesn't suit you. Tell me I-told-you-so like you've been dying to." said my observant former teammate.

"It doesn't, does it? And I did tell you so. Honestly, any smart person could tell that Yoko Kurama no longer really wanted to steal. His human mother had made him go soft. To bad you're not smart, eh. Then, after I left, you lowered your chances of sucsess from 5 percent to 0 percent by teaming up with that idiot Goki... But that's not why I'm here."

"Why are you here, onna?" he asked, no, demanded.

"I'll get to it," I answered, smirking, "eventually." Then, just to annoy him further, I flicked my short blond hair back, sat down, and took a book out of my backpack. Pretending concentration, I started reading, though in reality I was waiting for the katana on my throat. It didn't take long.

"Tell me now." his voice was as hard as the steel on my throat. Any other person would have been quaking in fear at the moment. Sometimes I'm so glad I'm not normal. I had stopped- no I actually don't think I was ever afraid of him. Grinning, I stood.

"I will. But first, I'm hungry. Bye me food." I demanded.

"Why should I, baka!" Hiei exclaimed.

"One: because I said so. Two: because I have no nigen money, and am to lazy at the moment to get some, and three: I came all this way to tell you something." I said happily, knowing I had power, at least until I told him. I was going to drag this out as long as possible!

"Fine. But this news had better be worth it. Not like last time!" he muttered. Last time I had done this, the only news I had was that, contrary to our prediction, nigens had sweetsnow. Only, for some reason, they called it ice cream. I will never understand nigen customs.

"But the time before that I told you about Yoko Kurama, and the time before that, Yukina!" I exclaimed, faking hurt that he wouldn't take me seriously. I remember the Yukina incident. When he found out that she went into the dangerous Makai, he had lost control. It was one of the only times I'd seen his emotions. Hiei, despite my entreaties to stop, had desided to get the jagen eye put in. Then, when he couldn't even find her, he had gone into a spitting rage. Sometimes I envy Yukina, her brother caring about her that much. My half siblings don't even know I exist!

"Let's go, then, weakling." I ignored the weakling remark and changed into my other form. Can't go to the Nigenshi with wings, can we? My ghost form didn't look quite human, but it was closer that my fallen angle one. My skin was still deathly pale, but my hair had gone a dark green. Bangs framed my face, with the rest of my hair pulled back in a pony-tail. I was wearing a matching green kimono with navy flower designs. Of course, I also had hidden knives. A girl had to be able to defend herself, didn't she? The thing that bothered me the most about this form, though, was the size. I'd gone from five foot six to slightly smaller that Hiei! Sadly, I now had to look him in the eye, rather then looking down at him.

We then walked through the portal.

------------------------------------------------------------------In the Nigenshi---------------------

"I want this, and this, and- oh definitely this!" I exclaimed, looking at rice, raspberries, and my favorite, chocolate. Grudgingly, Hiei bought them, as well as some sweet snow for himself. We brought our food to a tall oak tree, secluded from the nigens so we could talk.

"Now. Tell me what you came to say." said Hiei, in a voice that held for no argument. I sighed, knowing my game was up.

"Thief's court discovered you're working for Koenma. They were mad. Well, exept for Joey of course." I chewed a raspberry. Joey was this kid. A mouse demon who's father was a hot shot thief. He absolutely hero-worshiped Hiei. It was amusing, in a sickening way. When he found out Hiei was working as a spirit detective, he had decided that my former partner had meant to get caught just to become a one. Joey is now training, much to his fathers disgust, to become a spirit detective.

"Anyway, they decided to get revenge, you know, for one of their own going to the enemy." I said, graving some chocolate. Hiei nodded his understanding.

"What did they do?" he asked.

"Something so evil, so horrible, that even I wouldn't think to do." I started, in a grave voice.

"Nothing is so evil you wouldn't do it," muttered Hiei, "but continue." The evil comment made me mad, but I continued anyway. This was important, even though I hadn't acted like it.

"They sent an anonymous note to the ghost-demon general, telling him where you are. The general, for some reason I have yet to figure out, did not do as was expected. Rather then sending one or two soldiers after you, he sent a whole army. They're c class, so they can get through the border." I said sadly. "They're about two days behind me, and there is a lot of them."

" You are going to help me fight. Since it is your fault that the ghost demons are after me." ordered Hiei.

"Hey! It is not!" I exclaimed, "You came of your own free will. Anyway, it was you that made me want to meet my father, always making me fly you up to that island to watch your sister! It's your fault I got curious!"

"Idiot." he muttered. The argument would have gone on longer, if at just that moment, two people hadn't started calling Hiei's name. Actually, there were three of them, but only the one with slick-back hair and the tall, orange haired one were yelling. The red-head was walking calmly, and I reconised him as Kurama. He never met me, but I was the one that found him.

"Wow. Since when does the weakling anti-social have friends?" I taunted him. To my disgust, rather then rising to the bait, he just hned. "Well, I'll catch you later, scum." I said as I departed.

"Farewell, hopeless fighter." He called, no, muttered after me. I just barely heard him.

-----------------------Third person---------------------------------------------------

"Hey, Hiei! Koenma wants us, and he told me to get you for some reason!" yelled the gel haired boy, who's name happened to be Yusuke Urimeshi. "Who was that girl? Did you get a girlfriend?"

Hiei couldn't tell if his tone was genially interested or taunting. Doesn't matter, he thought, I won't tell him anyway.

"Didn't know you had it in you!" exclaimed the tall, orange haired boy, Kuwabara. In Hiei's opinion, he was the stupidest human is the entire Nigenshi. That, of course, might be slanted by the fact that he likes the demon's sister, and Hiei is very over protective. Therefore he answered, in his coldest voice.

"She is not my girlfriend, baka. I do not participate is such idiotic nigen customs." he replied, glaring.

"You shouldn't be mad, Hiei. After all, it is curious to see you talking with anyone of your own free will," the speaker was the last member of the group, red-headed Kurama.

Was it free will? He thought. I would have avoided the girl if I could have, but she had information. Then again, she was my thieving partner for almost my entire life, and I could have left.

While Hiei was thinking, Yusuke had called Botan to open a portal to Koenma's office. The group went through.

---------------------- In Koenma's office-------------------------------------------

"Finally, you're here!" exclaimed the miniature ruler, turning around to face them in his chair. "There are two matters of utmost importance!"

"They better be!" muttered Yusuke, "not only did I have to cancle my date with Kayko, but I had to find Hiei, which is hard to do!"

Koenma continued as if he hadn't heard. "Firstly, This morning a fallen angel snuck into my office." he stated, red with anger.

"Let me guess, he stole an object from the vault?" drawled Yusuke.

"No! She assaulted me! Held a katana to my throat, and told me to tell her where Hiei was." He turned to the smirking Hiei. "Who was she?"

"Hey! Maybe she was that girl that we saw him with before!" exclaimed Kuwabara.

"That was a nigen, idiot. Fallen angels have wings." explained Yusuke. It would have started a fight, if Hiei hadn't chosen that moment to speak.

"They were the same person. She went to Koenma because she was too pathetic to find me herself. Why she found me is none of your concern." he stated.

"Yes it is!" exclaimed the tiny ruler, "when she attacked me! But that is less important then the other news."

"What is the other news?" asked Kurama.

"There's an army of demons coming this way! Not only do we not know why, but they are ghost demons! These demons are usually excluded, and the most civilized of all the makai. Why are they attacking?" he questioned, as if one of the Renkei Tantei would know. To his suprise, one did.

"They are after me." Hiei stated the fact so coolly that if you didn't know, you'd think he was unaffected.

"What! Why! How do you know!" all the people in the room spoke together, excluding Hiei himself, as well as the fox, who just looked slightly curious.

"Hn, the girl told me." he said. He didn't add any more, even though his entire team, as well as the god, was staring at him waiting for an answer.

After about a minute of awkward silence, Yusuke got tired of waiting and screamed out, "Well, aren't you going to tell us!"

To that he simply answered, "No."

"Well anyway, There are to many to fight, and I don't want you to anyway, so I shall have to send an ambassador. It would help, though," said Koenma, " if we knew why they were angry!" This part was spoken for Hiei's benefit.

"Hn. Stay out of my business," replied Hiei.

"I will know, eventually! But I'll arrange a meeting between Kurama, the most cool headed member of the team, and the general of the army before they get to the boarder. That is all, for now." Koenma dismissed them.

-------------------------Kurama POV-------------------------------------------------

Wearing a dark cloak to hide my features, I followed one of the demons into camp. It was almost two days since lord Koenma had arranged the meeting. As I walked, I observed the ghosts. I had never seen them in real life, but I heard that though they were civilized in there own secluded home, they believed other demons to be inferior, and to them were vicious. I suppose, because of this rumor, I was slightly nervous, but I hid it from them.

The messenger led me to a large dark brown tent, and held the flap open for me to enter. He would stay outside to make sure nothing happened. I hopped he was here to protect me from them, not just them from me. The soldiers had been giving me bad looks, and though I could handle the c-class easily, there was almost a million of them.

Inside the tent were two ghost demons. I noted that both bore a strange resemblance to the girl Hiei had been talking to earlier. The older one had dark green hair cut close to his head, a pale complection, and a square face. He was also quite heavily built. I concluded that he was the general.

The younger one had the same hair, but long, and tied in a topknot. He was more slight, and wore more durable leather, rather then the general's silk robes. Both were much more powerful then the rest of the camp.

"You are the ambassador Koenma sent?" asked the general bluntly. He had a deep, imposing voice. "May I introduce my eldest son and heir, Desipio?" I nodded to them both, and decided to get to the heart of the matter.

"You both know why I am hear. This many demons going to the Nigenshi would cause havoc. They would then get slaughtered by the Renkai Tantai, making this expedition useless, " I started, making sure they knew that the army would be killed. "The ghosts are known to be a civilized race, however, so I must conclude that there is a good reason for this. My mission is to find out what it is, and hopefully settle the matter to both our advantages."

"I assure you, we do have a good reason," said the general. I wished he would get to the point. "We have reason to believe the fire demon Hiei Jagenshi is hiding out in this place." That really didn't tell me anything, even if I didn't already know that they were after the demon.

"May I ask why you are after him?" I said, politely.

"Certainly." he did not continue, however. This man was extremely annoying, and I didn't like him. He had a shifty aura.

"Well, what is the reason?" I tried to not let my annoyance show.

"A number of years ago, he rescued a fugitive from our executioner. But, more recently, and much more importantly-" he was cut off by his son, Desipio.

"He kidnapped my little sister!" the boy screamed out.

"Desipio! You are sixteen, act like it!" his father said angrily.

"I apologize, father." I watched this exchange with amusement until the general continued.

"We have reason to believe that Jagenshi has kidnapped my daughter, Eia. She is only six."

"What reasons are these," I asked curiously. Hiei hadn't been to the makai in a long time, so I didn't know how he could accomplish this feat. Even if he wanted to, which I doubted. He didn't seem the type to put up with children.

"This!" said the general triumphantly, after digging in a folder for quite some time. He showed me the note.

He is in the Nigenshi. Hiei Jagenshi, the demon you are after.

I had to resist the urge to laugh. It wasn't even signed, and left no clue as to the reason they were looking for him. They must have been desperate to find her. "I'm sorry to say, but this is no proof," I spoke calmly, knowing this would upset them. "The demon in question has many enemies, and they could have been referring to the other charges against him." I spoke as though I did not know the demon personally.

The general stood up. "I am positive this is the demon we are after!" he shouted.

"I'm sorry for your loss," I said, acting like he hadn't just lost his temper. "but the spirit world will send their best to find her. We will bring her back in exchance for your return to your country, without attacking."

He appeared to think about it. "Ok. I'll agree to your terms on one condition. To make sure you keep your side of the bargain, my son shall accompany her," he seemed happy with this idea, "That way she will have a familiar face to look upon when we rescue her from Jagenshi." I tried to quell my rage as the boy seemed to shrink. Not only did he question my honor, but he is still sure that Hiei was the kidnapper, even after I said differently. To add to that, he was sending a boy who looked scared out of his mind on tthe mission. I had to go with it, however, for the sake of the Nigenshi.

"Agreed. Shall we go?" I asked, gesturing to Desipio.

Though he was trembling, he answered without a waver. "Yes."

We walked out of camp.

-------------------------------- Back at Koenma's -----------------------------------------------------

"-and this is the compromise." Kurama finished his tale, gesturing the the Tantai's temporary new teammate, Desipio.

Koenma nodded. "Yes, well, I suppose I should call the team. Botan!" he yelled.

"Yes, sir." answered the deity, appearing out of the thin air. She surprised Desipio, and he jumped quite high at her voice.

"Go get the Renkai Tantai. They have another mission," ordered the toddler. After a curious look at Desipio, the blue-haired deity nodded, and left, cheerfully whistling as she flew away on her oar. Desipio looked very confused.

Kurama must have noticed the confusion, because he quickly explained who Botan was. It just seemed to make the ghost more edgy, though. Just then, Yusuke and Kuwabara came in.

"So, what's it this time, binky breath?" asked Yusuke. "And who's he?" he finished, noticing Desipio.

"That, Yusuke, is the son of the ghost demon general. He is going to help you on your new mission," said Koenma.

"What! We don't need help! I can fight demons on my own!" shouted Yusuke, looking quite angry.

"Ha ha, Urimeshi! He's right, you'd be dead without the help of the great Kazuma Kuwabara!" stated Kuwabara, if you hadn't guessed that already. "Hey, where's the shrimp?"

"He will be here in a moment, but if I can have your attention to tell you the mission!" shouted Koenma, trying to be heard over the fighting of the two best friends. When they calmed down enough to listen, he continued. "A demon has kidnapped his sister, princess Eia, aged six. You are to rescue her, as soon as we find out were and who are holding her.

It was then Desipio broke out of his daze. "We know who kidnapped her. Why won't you listen? It was that no-good, dirty rotted thief/assassin Hiei Jagenshi!" he yelled angrily.

"What? Hiei would never kidnap a little kid!" replied Yusuke, then he muttered, "Well, not anymore, I don't think." He was remembering when the demon had kidnapped Kayko. The detective didn't see any reason to tell the other boy that, though.

"He did! My father's sure of it! If my father thinks so then it's true! Hiei Jagenshi kidnapped my sister." yelled the extremely ticked off ghost demon. At just that moment the object of his anger came in, with a very startling reply.

"So what if I did? Why would you care," responded the fire demon.