Lil'Pup: I don't own Yu Yu Hakusho, Fruits Basket, or Avatar the Last Air bender.
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"Is everybody ready," Aglaia asked excitedly, pumping a fist in the air.
"Yeah," the four kids said.
"Are you boys eager to meet Shizuru's other friend," Michi asked taking a drink.
"Yep," Ayame and Shigure said.
"Sure," Hatori answered bored.
"Alright, let's get a move on," Haneul said making the worm hole, "Please remember to keep your hands and feet in side the worm hole at all times."
Shizuru gave a half smile at her older friends attempt at humor before walking through.
"That felt weird," Shigure said once he came out of the warp hole.
"Don't worry, you get use to it," Shizuru said. She took a quick look around and saw that they were in the same house they stayed in last year.
"What are we going to do now," Ayame asked.
"Let's put our bags away, then I'll introduce you guys to Amala," Shizuru said leading her friends to their rooms.
Once they put their stuff away, Shizuru led them into town, taking them to the school where Amala was at.
"How are we going to find her," Shigure asked, looking at the large crowd of children.
Shizuru quickly scanned the area until she saw her friend running towards her.
"SHIZURU," Amala shouted, throwing her arms around her for a hug.
"No need to scream, I'm right here," Shizuru said, but still returned the hug.
Once the two girls pulled away from the hug, Ayame gave Amala a bouquet of roses.
"Please except these as a gift to a friend of Shizuru's to another," he said with a charming smile.
"Amala, these are some friends of mine from the world I'm from. Ayame, Shigure, and Hatori, meet Amala. Amala, meet Ayame, Shigure, and Hatori," Shizuru said introducing them all.
Once they all said their hellos, Shigure started speaking, "So Shizuru told us how you two met, and did you really sneak into a military base?"
Amala blushed and nodded slowly, "We did, but Shizuru did all of the work."
"Isn't Shizuru just amazing," Ayame asked hugging Shizuru.
Ever since the boys found out they could hug Shizuru with out transforming, they've been doing in as often as possible.
"Shizuru, don't you think we should go find those other friends of yours," Hatori asked, even through he didn't really care.
"Yeah, I want to go mess with that Zhao-Zhao guy you were talking about," Shigure said.
"Me too," Ayame chimed in.
"All right then, come on Amala," Shizuru said taking her hand.
'I wonder what Prince Luten will think of Shizuru's friends,' Amala thought as they walked.
It was no secret to Amala that Prince Luten liked Shizuru; in fact everyone seemed to know it except Shizuru. For some reason no one pointed it out to her, and Amala was afraid of what would happen if she did, but she didn't know why.
"Is this the place," Ayame asked once the arrived at the palace.
"Yeah," Shizuru said, "So do you guys want to sneak in or do you just want to go through the gate?"
"Let's just go through the…" Hatori began.
"Sneak in, sneak in," Ayame and Shigure shouted happily.
"What about you Amala," Shizuru asked turning to her.
Amala wanted to say know, but she noticed how Shizuru's seem to light up at the thought of it, and she didn't what it to go away.
"I guess we can sneak in," Amala said as Shigure and Ayame cheered, "If we get into any trouble Shizuru can protect us."
Hatori sighed, "How are we going to get in?"
Five minutes later they were inside the palace walls.
"That was easy," Ayame commented.
"I can't believe those guards bought that story about us being with the tour group," Hatori said rubbing his forehead.
"You would think they would offer to help us find the rest of the group through," Shigure said.
"But there isn't a tour group," Shizuru said.
"I know, but they still should have offered," he said.
"How are we going to find Prince Luten," Amala asked.
"Hold on for a minute, there's something I want to try," Shizuru said sitting down.
"You want us to use you as bait to lure him out," Shigure asked.
"What the… no, how does that even make sense," Shizuru asked, "I'm going to try and focus in on Lu-Lu's energy so I can find him."
"Is there anything that girl can't do," Ayame asked happily like he was the one doing it.
"She can't stay out of trouble for one thing," Hatori said grabbing a sucker from Shizuru's pocket.
When everyone nodded in agreement, Shizuru glared at them, and then went back to what she was doing.
Closing her eyes, Shizuru relaxed her body, and searched for any signs of the young Fire Nation prince. About two minutes had past when she finally felt a familiar spark.
"I think I found him," Shizuru said getting up, "Follow me."
They all ran through the halls, heading in the direction Shizuru said Luten was in. They found him in the library doing his studies.
"Hey Lu-Lu," Shizuru said putting a sucker in her mouth.
At the sound of a familiar voice and nick-name, Prince Luten looked up and smile when he saw that it was indeed Shizuru.
"Shizuru," Luten cried out happily leaving the table he was sitting at so he could go hug his crush.
Shizuru hugged him back, and when they pulled back, she introduced him to the Madabuchi Trio.
"Lu-Lu, these guys are some of my friends from my world," she said pointing each of them out, "The one with silver hair is Ayame, over there with the untrustworthy smile is Shigure, and that last by certainly not least is Hatori."
"It's nice to meet you," the three boys said bowing down.
"Like wise," Luten said bowing in return. "So how do you know Shizuru?"
"We're her best friends," Shigure said with a smile.
"Yep, we see her almost everyday," Ayame said with a wink.
"Yeah, it's never a boring day with these guys," Shizuru said with a genuine smile.
Luten felt a pang of jealously seeing how close the other boys were to Shizuru. I got to see her all the time and they got her to smile one of her rare smiles that he could put on her face.
"Where's Zhao-Zhao at," Shizuru asked, "I want to go annoy him."
"That sounds like fun," Ayame and Shigure said.
"He's in the training grounds with Captain Jeong-Jeong," Luten said, "And my father is in the throne room with my uncle talking to my grandfather."
"In that case let's go bug Jeonny Boy too while we're at it," Shizuru suggested.
"You know Jeong-Jeong doesn't like it when you interrupted him while he's training," Luten reminded her.
"You think that would stop her," Shigure asked, "Do you not know Shizuru at all?"
Luten's face turned red, he knew Shizuru, and he just thought he should tell her when to stop.
"Guys stop messing with Lu-Lu," Shizuru said, "I consider him a really good friend."
Prince Luten's heart started speeding up as Shizuru gave him a smile.
"But we're still going to annoy Zhao-Zhao right," Ayame asked.
"Of course," Shizuru said still smiling.
Luten and Amala opened their mouths to say something but Hatori stopped them.
"Do you really think anything you two say is going to keep them from doing it," he asked.
They both knew he was right, and followed everyone else out of the room.
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"Jeonny-Boy," Shizuru shouted before jumping on the older mans shoulders.
"Did you really have to do that," Jeong-Jeong asked, vein bulging on his head.
"Yes, yes I did," Shizuru said resting her chin on the top of his head.
"Fool," Zhao mumbled under his breath.
"I heard that Zhao-Zhao," Shizuru said, turning her head to look at him.
"DON'T CALL ME THAT," he shouted, fire sprouting out of his hands.
"Zhao, what have I said about control," Jeonny Boy scowled at his student.
"But it is Shizuru's fault," Zhao complained.
"How is it Shizuru's fault that you can't control your temper," Hatori asked staring blankly at him.
"Who asked you," Zhao shot back at him. He turned away from him, and then turned back when he realized something, "Who are you anyways?"
"We're Shizuru's friends," Ayame said with a happy smile.
"Yep, we've been her best friends for nearly four years," Shigure added, just as happy.
Zhao and Jeong-Jeong all turned to Prince Luten to see his reaction of it.
"What," he asked, not knowing why they were staring at him like that.
Shizuru hopped down off of Jeonny Boy and walked over to everyone else. "I thought it might be fun if I invited them to come with me this year," she told them.
"On whose part," Jeonny Boy asked.
"Mostly mine," Shizuru said, "And theirs."
Noticing Zhao-Zhao was getting angry, Shizuru pulled out her secret weapon. Pulling out a box out of nowhere she handed it to Zhao, "I brought some of those snack cakes you like so much."
Zhao looked at the cakes, and then at Shizuru, and then back at the cakes, "I'll take the snack cakes, but I'm still mad at you," he said taking the box.
"I guess I should get the introductions out of the way," Shizuru said turning to the Madubachi Trio, "Guys, this is Jeong-Jeong, but I call him Jeonny Boy, and that ray of sunshine is Zhao, but you can call him Zhao-Zhao."
"No you can't," Zhao-Zhao said angrily.
Jeonny Boy and Zhao-Zhao, this is Hatori, Shigure, and Ayame," Shizuru finished pointed each boy out.
"Hey Zhao-Zhao," Shigure began.
"I told you not to call me that," Zhao-Zhao growled.
Shigure continued as if he didn't say anything, "Why are you so mean to Shizuru? I mean, I don't think it's possible for someone to hate her."
"Maybe the fact that she's rude, show's no respect for her superiors, and she keeps calling me Zhao-Zhao," Zhao said shouting the last part.
Everyone just stared at him, making his face grow hot.
"Are you done rambling yet Zhao-Zhao," Shizuru asked, clearly not impressed.
This caused Zhao to continue rambling but no one was really listening.
Shizuru was talking to Amala, Luten, and Hatori about something, so Ayame and Shigure walked up to Jeong-Jeong.
"Shizuru told us you're a really great fighter, is it true," Ayame asked looking up at Jeonny Boy.
"I'm a Fire Bending master if that's what you mean," Jeong-Jeong said looking down at the duo.
"We'll take that as a yes," Shigure said, "Shizuru seems to respect you a lot, seeing how fondly she talks about you."
Jeong-Jeong was surprised by what they said; did Shizuru really talk fondly of him.
"If your friend Shizuru really respected me, she would stop calling by that nickname she gave me," Jeong-Jeong pointed out.
Shigure raised an eyebrow, "Do you really think that just because Shizuru likes to call you Jeonny Boy that she disrespects you?"
"Yeah, giving people nicknames is just what we do," Ayame said, "Sometimes we call Shizuru Zuru for a nickname."
"If Shizuru thought that the nickname she gave you hurt your feelings or something she would stop calling you by it," Shigure said, "But we won't stop giving people nicknames just because it annoys them."
"That's half the reason we give them to people," Ayame said with a smile.
'Something isn't normal with those children,' Jeonny Boy thought as the two boys walked away to join Shizuru.
"Hey Roh's coming this way," Shizuru said looking towards the garden gate.
Sure enough Prince Iroh walked into the garden just seconds after.
"You're so cool," Shigure and Ayame said, hugging Shizuru.
"Oh, Shizuru, I see you have returned for the summer," Iroh said happily.
"Are you happy to see me or the tea snacks I bring," Shizuru asked handing Iroh a box.
"Are you Iroh," Ayame asked the older man.
"Indeed I am," he said munching on the cookies.
"Shizuru tells us that you can make really good tea," Shigure said joining Ayame.
"Well she wasn't lying, I make the best tea in the Fire Nation," Iroh said proudly.
"She also said you were a really great fighter," Hatori mentioned.
"Yes, I'm pretty good," Iroh said, "Now who wants some tea?"
"We do," Ayame, Shigure, Shizuru, Luten and Hatori said, their hands shooting up, except for Hatori's.
They were now all back inside the palace, happily sipping on their tea when Shizuru spoke up.
"Ozzi is coming this way."
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Prince Ozai now shows up in the story. Stay tune for next time to see what happens. Please read and review.