Hi everybody out there. I'm Siew Lee and I'm a newbie here. This is my fic
--- The Past, The Present and The Future. Please give C&Cs and e-mail them
directly to me. Please... I'm starving for them...

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Memories - Part 1

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Disclaimer: All the characters in this story that you recognize belong 
to Yoshihiro Togashi, Shounen Weekly Jump, and other related parties. 
The rest is mine and I had written this totally out of fun and 
enjoyment of YYH fans. I'm not making any money out of this but if 
they want to bring a lawsuit against me, I'll pull it off the web...
(Besides I'm broke now.)

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"Yusuke! Yusuke!" yelled a frantic voice seconds after a loud
crashing sound was heard nearly throughout the whole apartment in the
middle of the city. The digital clock on the bedside table showed the
time as 7.00 am.

The girl glared irritably at a boy sleeping on the bed soundly and 
tried calling a few more times. 

"Get up, Yusuke!" she said angrily. She tried slapping him a few 
times, but quickly removed her hand from the drooling face. She then 
took the body by the shoulders and began shaking it violently, 
attempting to wake up the boy.

*That pig, why doesn't he wake up?* grumbled the girl, determined 
not to let go until she gets his attention.

Yusuke was just opening a sleepy eye when someone shook him with the
force of an earthquake. Yusuke opened his brown eyes in shock to see 
a pair of pink eyes staring at him urgently.

"Huh, Botan? What are you doing here so early in..." Before Yusuke 
could finish the sentence, Botan interrupted him just right at time, her 
voice growing impatient. Botan seemed very anxious and panicky. He could see 
rivulets of sweat running down Botan's forehead.

"Urgent stuff, Yusuke. Koenma has a very important message for you."
As she said that, she threw Yusuke a briefcase bearing the character 
'Rei' at a corner. Yusuke threw Botan a dirty look because this wasn't
exactly the perfect idea of waking up. Now he knew that Botan could 
shake people like a rag doll.

With quick and deft fingers, he opened the briefcase and looked into a
blank screen. "Reikai investigators don't have holidays as school gives us. 
I don't deserve to be treated like this, more or less I'm still a human.
This better be important or I'll never forgive you for this... You know my
days off are very important to me." Yusuke grumbled loudly.

After minutes of static, still no picture.

"Hey! What's wrong with it? How come there's no picture?" said Yusuke, 
hammering the briefcase with his fist.

"Hands away." warned Botan, already standing straight with her oar in
her hands.

"Watch it!" Yusuke's hand just managed to get away before Botan 
slammed the top with the flat part of her oar. 

"That damned box needs to be treated like this sometimes." explained 
Botan, after knocking it.

The screen began to spit and splutter. Koenma appeared after 10 
seconds of static and he was chewing intently on his blue pacifier, or
more well known as the Fuumaken. He was still dressed in his typical 
Koenma way, with a pair of kungfu style suit and a bib. Over 
his small head, drooped a huge floppy hat with is larger than his body 
length. George, the blue oni was standing stiffly beside Koenma, as 
any other faithful and obedient servant might do. Koenma's desk was 
also in a mess. Mountains and mountains of papers everywhere. Koenma 
himself also looked rather untidy with his hair sticking out one side.

"Yusuke, I have a very important mission for you now. This mission is
more difficult than 'Mission Impossible'. Let me remind you once more,
be careful and ..." As Koenma said that, Yusuke let out a sleepy yawn.

"Koenma, cut the crap and let's go straight to the point. okay?" 
said Yusuke tiredly at Koenma and he received a rough nudge in the ribs 
from Botan, reminding him not to be rude at Koenma. 

"Okay, if that's what you want. The Reikai are very proud of you 
because you had finally destroyed Sensui. Now, Reikai is once again 
peaceful. A few days ago, we had sensed a very strange and powerful 
energy field somewhere near the borders of Makai and Ningenkai."

"So what am I suppose to do?" interrupted Yusuke.

"Yusuke, let me explain it all first!" yelled an exasperated Koenma. 

"Whoa, calm down. Getting angry is very bad for you." said George, patting
Koenma on the back. Koenma relaxed and calmed down.

"This energy isn't Reiki or Youki, but a totally different power. 
Don't disparage  it, it is every bit as powerful as Reiki or Youki. 
Reikai has never experienced such power and it might pose great danger
to all three worlds. I'm afraid that this power could be three times 
more powerful than Raizen, maybe even more. Because this 
threatens the well being of all of us, so I'll go through this mission
personally with your Reikai special investigator team. According to 
some sources, this group of people may range from 3 to 7, each with a 
different ability. Please contact Kurama, Hiei and Kuwabara immediately as
we might need their help." said Koenma.

"Do you have any idea what is happening down there?" asked Yusuke,
beginning to show interest in the assignment.

"Well, Reikai has a special prison in Makai where we kept some of the
most dangerous criminals there. The castle has a reiki or youki 
barrier where either side's couldn't use their power against each
other in between this wall. Although it was the Reikai which erected this 
system, but we can't actually see what's happening inside. Simple 
things such as checking their youki is also immposible, unless we free
them. To tell  the truth, I do not have the slightest idea what is 
happening inside." confessed Koenma.

"Anyway, one more question. Where are you going to meet us? You can't
just simply wander around in the streets of Ningenkai like that." said
Yusuke.

"I'll meet you all at Keiko's ramen shop in two hours' time. Yusuke, all
the hope lies in you." As Koenma finished his speech, the picture 
spluttered and died out, leaving only static behind. 

"What? Two hours? How am I going to find all of them, especially Hiei.
That youkai is always disappearing. Now, I don't even know where he 
is, in Makai or in Ningenenkai..." exclaimed Yusuke desperately 
scratching his already tousled hair.

"Well, you got to find him somehow. I'll help you." answered Botan 
enthusiastically, sitting down on a cushion on the floor.

"Duh!" came the reply as Yusuke began combing his hair.

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After talking with Yusuke, Koenma stepped down from his ridiculously
huge leather armchair and paced around. Things had been getting off 
hands lately. Enma-Daiou had went off for a holiday, again! Leaving 
his poor son in a midst of paperwork. Problems seemed to arise one 
after another. Why did demons from Makai always seem to find ways out to 
Ningenkai? Didn't they have anything better to do?

Koenma couldn't stand to think about this question for one more second
so he quickly transformed into his teenage form. As he walked out of 
his office, he stopped by the wall mirror to check on his hair and
clothes. Of course he doesn't want to embarrass himself in front of 
the rest...

As he was priming his hair, he suddenly realized how handsome he 
looked without his pacifier. In fact, he belonged to the category of 
'bishounen'. That reminded him what Enma had said to him a little 
while back. "Koenma, you are not young anymore. Before long, you are 
to take my place. But before that, you must find yourself a mate..."

AS Koenma recalled his words and his face flushed a shade of pink. He
suddenly felt a stab of pain in his heart and his eyes began to go 
slightly watery. He bit back that feeling forcefully. He took a final 
look at his outfit and went in a huff.

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Yusuke pulled his jeans up and put on a clean white t-shirt. He combed
his hair to his usual style and began pacing about in his room, then 
stopped and went downstairs. Atsuko was off to her present husband's 
house so there's no one in the apartment.

He stopped by the phone and began punching in Kurama's phone number. A
sleepy voice answered the phone. Yusuke recognized it as of Shuiichi's
voice, the human body that Kurama possessed. He told him that Koenma 
had a new mission in hand and planned to meet them all. Kurama's sleepy 
voice agreed and hanged up.

"Kurama as a youko sounds a lot different." thought Yusuke to himself 
as he remembered the more matured voice.

Yusuke dialed Kuwabara's number. Kuwabara was not as polite as Kurama 
was to be woken up that early in the morning. A string of bad words 
followed soon:-

"Urameshi! What the hell made you call that early! Tell me which f***ing
asshole and I'll make that asshole eat his own shit!" cursed a very 
angry Kuwabara.

"Cool down, baka! Nobody forced me to phone you. The Reikai special
investigation team has a new mission down." shouted Yusuke, holding the
phone receiver away from his ears.

"Oh yeah? Tell me what it is. I'm always ready to take any challenge."
challenged Kuwabara eagerly.

Yusuke filled him in the details and Kuwabara agreed to see Koenma 
with him. *Even that stupid fool even sounds excited.* thought Yusuke 
with a smile on his face.

"Now, we just only left with Hiei to find. That guy is always so 
weird, wandering in between Makai and Ningenkai." Yusuke then asked 
Botan is there any way to contact Hiei. Botan took out her collection 
of 7 Reikai Investigation special tools and selected a whistle.

Botan stuck the whistle's mouthpiece in between her lips and took a
deep breath.

"Oh no, not that..." As he said that, he jammed his fingers in 
his ears. Kurama told him once that one of the seven Reikai investigation 
tools is very harmful to youkai ears. *Oh great, I'm half toushin now...*
Even with his ears plugged he could still hear the loud blast of the 
whistle. Then, a crashing sound came from outside the apartment.

Yusuke told Botan that it must be Hiei. Both of them walked out of the
apartment and took the elevator down. They reached the building's 
front part and saw Hiei all curled up in a pile of limbs. He had been 
sleeping on the rooftop. Hiei quickly recollected himself and dusted 
debris off him.

"Why the hell did you blow that whistle! It hurts, stupid! This is 
the second time you did that!" yelled Hiei to Botan who was still holding 
the accursed whistle. Hiei was still rubbing his ears.

"I 'had' to because finding you using other equipment is near 
impossible!" shot back Botan. Hiei just looked away in his typical
Hiei-ish behavior, which he doesn't care to say anything furthur.

"What do you think you can do by just looking away like that?" 
continued Botan sarcastically.

"Look here. I had made it a point not to argue with girls like you.
What a waste of time. I had been holding back all the time because 
you knew about my stuff and Yukina's. I could blast you to the moon
just because of that." answered Hiei, equally obnoxious.

"Come on, don't argue." shouted Yusuke over the noise as a heated 
argument broke out between Hiei and Botan. Botan stuck out here 
tongue at Hiei while Hiei threw her a dirty look.

"So, what's the big deal?" asked Hiei, obviously irritated.

"Well, it's about our new mission..." Yusuke began explaining. By the
time Yusuke had finished explaining, they realized that they were late
for Koenma's meeting for around half an hour...

Little did they know that this will lead them to memories, vengeance
and dreams that might not be there always. Adventures of a lifetime 
that will happen only once. 

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End of Part #1

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First version: December 1997
Second version: March 1998

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Siew Lee

"Life's like a box of chocolates."
Forest Gump.