"A test? What sort of test?" asked Valerie.

"If you're going to keep an eye on Jean, you need to be able to put up with Anne and Mandy too," said Fred.

"That's easy!" said Valerie. "I already put up with Anne and Mandy."

"Yes, but since Jean follows them, to keep them out of trouble, you have to follow them to make sure Jean is doing her job. Keeping an eye on Anne and Mandy is harder than it looks. To test your ability to control Jean, I'm sending the four of you on a mission."

"Okay, where to?" asked Valerie.

"We haven't decided yet," said Fred.

"We?!"

"I don't have a job of my own for you, so I asked Koenma whether he had a job to send you on."

"That means Jean will be working with Kurama!"

"That's right."

Valerie groaned. "I think my job just got harder," she said.

"A mission with Kurama?!!" Jean cried, excited.

Mandy groaned. "That means I'll be stuck with Hiei, doesn't it?"

"Just the four of us? No Hikaru?" Anne sounded disappointed.

"Well," said Valerie, "Fred is considering sending Hikaru with us, just in case I can't handle Jean. Anne! Anne, are you okay?"

Anne was running around the room, trying to turn cartwheels and falling on her butt. She got up. "I never have been able to turn cartwheels," she said simply.

Mandy suddenly threw her notebook across the room in disgust. "How does Fred expect us to go on a trip when we have finals to study for?!"

"Oh, come on, Mandy. I thought you said that you never study for tests. You can manage," Jean coaxed.

"You just want to see Kurama, huh." It was a statement, not a question on Anne's part.

"You've got it!"

A sweatdrop appeared on Valerie's forehead.

"What sort of a special assignment?" Yususke asked.

"Fred called. She wants you to team up with some of her Weird World guides. Apparently she wants to test a new chaperone," Koenma told them.

"A new chaperone? Does this mean no Jean?!" Kurama sounded worried.

"No, Jean will be here, she's just a Weird World guide now. Fred decided that Jean needed a chaperone of her own, so she recruited a new girl," Hiei told him.

"How do you know all that?" asked Kuwabara.

"Because I rescued Jean from the torturous test Fred had prepared for her to see if she needed a chaperone, and got beaten to a bloody pulp for my efforts," Hiei answered.

"So, who's the new girl?" Yusuke asked with interest.

"Hn. How should I know?"

"Kurama!" Jean cried happily, as she landed her broom next to the startled fox demon. Anne and Mandy landed next to her. There was another girl too, riding on a mop. She was slender, with mid-length black hair pulled back into a ponytail and bangs curling against her forehead. Her brown eyes were wide with amazement.

"This is Valerie. She's my new chaperone." Jean introduced her to the group. "Valerie, this is Yusuke, Hiei, Kuwabara, Koenma, and last, but not least, Kurama."

"What's with the mop?" Yusuke asked Valerie.

"It's to mop up Jean's drool," Valerie answered. Yusuke put a hand over his mouth to hide a smile. Jean glared at him.

"Drool?!?" said Kuwabara.

"Yeah," said Valerie. "Jeans always drooling over cute guys, after all."

Yusuke couldn't restrain it any longer. He burst out laughing. "She needs a chaperone to mop up her drool?!" he cried, still laughing.

Jean exploded. "It's not funny!!" she yelled as she grabbed Yusuke and began to pound him.

"Help!!" cried Yusuke.

"Kurama," Anne asked sweetly, "you want to get over there and help your friend?"

"Why me?" asked Kurama.

"Because she won't hit you," Mandy explained.

Kurama sighed and turned to pull Jean off of Yusuke, but Valerie was before him. "Um, don't you want some help with that?" he asked, watching her restrain a still angry Jean.

"No, I've got her. This is my job, after all," Valerie replied.

"I though that your job was to mop up her drool," a rather bruised Yusuke said.

"That too."

"Well," said Koenma, "now that that little disturbance has been taken care of, about the job I'm sending you on. It's really much more simple than most of the assignments I have for you. There's a place in the Human World where heated water from the Spirit World bubbles up through the ground. It's known as the Spring of Youth because if you were to bath in it, it's supposed to make you feel young again. Needless to say, humans find this appealing. Unfortunately, the spring contains chemicals in it that can be harmful to humans if they bath in it too often. I want you to go there, drive away all the humans, and redirect the underground stream that feeds the spring. Should be quite simple."

"Simple?!" cried Kuwabara. "You call moving a spring simple?!"

"Oh, no!" Anne moaned. "I just had a horrible thought. There will be lots of guys there, in swim trunks!!"

"AHHHHH!!!! NOOOOOOO!!!" cried Jean and Valerie, in unison.

"What's wrong?" cried Kurama.

"Cute guys in swim trunks?! My self-control! My self-control!" Jean wailed.

"My job! My job!" Valerie moaned.

Later, when the whole group was sitting on the steps of Genkai's temple, Jean, Anne, Mandy, and Valerie were trying to study. Jean was snuggled up against Kurama, and was having him help her learn her math vocabulary. Mandy and Valerie were going over their History notes together, while Anne had her nose in a French book.

"I can't believe we just got an assignment, and all you can think about is studying!" said Yusuke.

"Hey, if we do poorly on these finals, we can kiss those A's goodbye!" growled Mandy.

"Who's giving you all this work, anyway?" asked Kuwabara. He picked up a piece of paper. "Snyder Final?" he read.

"AHH! You said the S word! You said the S word!" cried Jean, Anne, Mandy, and Valerie.

"What, you mean Snyder?"

"AAHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

"What's Snyder?" asked Yukina.

"She is our social studies teacher. She loads us with homework!" Anne cried.

"She makes us miss A+'s on our tests by one point!" added Mandy.

"And," Valerie blurted out the worst charge, "she's making our final worth fourteen grades!!"

Before they could start wailing again, there was a flash of light, and Fred appeared. Under her arm, she was carrying the blackest cat any of them had ever seen. The cat turned it's gray eyes on Anne with a look of pleading.

"Hands off my boyfriend, Fred!" Anne growled.

"Where's her boyfriend?" asked Kurama. Jean pointed at the cat under Fred's arm.

"That's her boyfriend?! It looks like a witch's cat!" said Hiei, who was promptly smacked upside the head by Anne. Fred dropped the cat, who changed into a young man that looked like Kurama, only he had black hair and gray eyes. Anne ran over to greet him.

"I though Valerie might have some trouble with Jean, so I brought Hikaru along to help," said Fred.

"Wait a minute! Anne has a boyfriend?" Kuwabara was confused.

"You didn't know that?!" Jean and Mandy were incredulous.

"Also," Fred continued, oblivious to any interruptions, "I brought along a new recruit, who will be under Hikaru's supervision. I want you all to meet Touga Higurashi."

From behind her, a young man stepped out of the shadows. He was tall and slender built with blue eyes and black hair. He smiled very faintly at the guides. Valerie caught her breath.

Jean stared at the young man for a moment, then she gestured to Anne and Mandy. They followed her to a remote corner of the garden, while Fred introduced Touga to everyone else. "I've seen that boy before!" she whispered.

"Why are we whispering?" asked Mandy.

Jean ignored her. "Remember that time we broke into Bordem Hoggie's palace?" she asked.

"How could I forget?" Anne murmured, as Valerie came to join them.

"I saw him there!"

"As a prisoner?" Mandy asked. Jean shook her head.

"Who?!" Valerie demanded.

"Touga." Said Jean.

Valerie just shook her head. "No, Jean, you must be mistaken. He's a Weird World recruit."

Mandy saw the implications. "Should we tell Fred?" she asked.

"No!" hissed Valerie. "Jean, that couldn't be him. You know Fred wouldn't let in any ally of Bordem's, and she couldn't fail to notice something like that on the background checks; she's very careful."

Jean shook her head. "Fred probably wouldn't believe me anyway. She'll be like Valerie and say I'm mistaken, that I must not have been wearing my contacts."

"Were you?!" Valerie asked. Jean ignored her.

"He probably won't get to pull anything, anyway, with Hikaru watching him," Mandy pointed out.

"Oh, no!" Anne gasped. "Hikaru! We should warn him!"

"Fred," said Touga the next morning, "I'm worried. Your guides don't seem to like me very much. They always get as far away from me as possible and whisper."

"Don't worry," Fred said breezily. "They're probably just talking about some prank to play on you as a sort of initiation test."

"What sort of test?" Touga asked warily.

"Oh, something harmless. Hikaru will make sure it's nothing too serious."

"Are you sure?"

"Positive."

"Did you warn Hikaru?" Mandy asked.

Anne sighed. "I tried. He wouldn't listen to me. He holds with Valerie."

"Come on, girls. We'll be leaving any minute now," called Yusuke.

Jean, Anne, Mandy, and Valerie were getting ready to load up their passengers and deciding who they would take. Hiei came over and stood by Anne. "Want to ride with me again, Hiei?" she asked.

Hiei nodded. "I know you won't beat me up," he said.

"Wait a minute!" cried Hikaru. "I thought I was going with you!"

"You are," Anne said. "You're on my shoulder." Hikaru grumbled and changed into a black cat. Anne picked him up and put him on her shoulder.

"Someone is still going to have to take two people," Jean said.

Valerie sighed. "I'll take two people," she said.

Touga came up behind her and smiled sweetly. "In that case, I guess I'm riding with you," he said. Valerie turned so that he wouldn't see the pink tinge to her cheeks.

"Where exactly is this spring, anyway?" asked a rather annoyed Mandy.

"Hold on a minute! I'm looking!" Yusuke growled, looking at a map.

"We've been looking for it all day, and it's getting late," complained Jean. ""Yusuke, do you even have the map right side up?"

Yusuke muttered something about girls always interfering, and suggested that they stay right where they were for the night. Kuwabara grumbled about having to sleep on the ground, but the rest of the group agreed.

Hiei sighed. For all his usual sleeping outside, he couldn't sleep now. He looked down at the group below him from his tree top perch. Kuwabara was snoring loudly. Yusuke was out cold next to him. Jean and Kurama were snuggled together for warmth. Valerie lay near by. Mandy was sleeping a little apart from them. She had been the first one to go to sleep. <Then again,> he reflected, <it's probably exhausting to haul Kuwabara around on a spatula all day.>

On Mandy's chest lay two cats curled up together, a brown one, and a black one. Anne and Hikaru had both changed into cat form before going to sleep. <At least they found a flat surface to sleep on,> he thought. Hiei studied the group. They all looked so peaceful. Everything was perfectly still.

Not quite. The movement was so sudden and silent that he almost missed it. A figure moved off into the darkness. It didn't take long for Hiei to recognize Touga. Touga slipped of amongst the trees. Silently, Hiei followed.

<Where the hell is he going?!> Hiei thought for the hundredth time. Touga had been leading him through the trees for nearly an hour now. Suddenly, he stopped in front of a bubbling spring. The water was a queer color. <The Spring of Youth!> Hiei thought. <But if Touga knew where it was all along->

Another figure stepped out of the trees to meet Touga. This one Hiei recognized immediately, and knew all to well. He had never brought anything but trouble to Hiei.

"Why didn't they already show up here?!" demanded Bordem Hoggie.

"They couldn't find the place. They're sleeping nearby."

"Great!" said Bordem. "We can ambush them while they're asleep."

"NO!" Touga's reply was quick and sharp.

"NO?! Who gave you the right to command me?!"

"Sorry!" Touga said quickly. "It's just," he explained hastily, "I'll have a hard enough time finding my way back along. Besides, they'll all fall into your lap tomorrow."

"I guess I should wait till then. Now get back before anyone notices you're missing!"

Touga turned and left. Hiei followed him back to were the rest of the group was. Touga lay down and went to sleep. Hiei, by now certain that sleep was not in his near future, sat up in a tree, thinking.

"Mandy, please, I really need to talk to you!" Hiei tugged on her arm, pulling her apart from the rest of the group.

"Go away! For the last time, I'm busy!" Mandy snapped.

"But it's about Touga!"

"Then talk to Hikaru. He's Touga's supervisor."

Hiei had considered talking to Hikaru, but Hikaru was almost a complete stranger to him. He'd decided, after many sleepless hours the night before, to try and tell Mandy, and let her handle it. After all, she was head guide. But the more he pestered her, the more adamant she became not to listen to him.

Hiei threw up his hands in despair. "Fine!" he growled. "Walk into a trap and die for all I care!"

He'd been trying all morning to tell them and it wasn't working. He had decided that if he couldn't tell Mandy, he should at least try and talk to one of the three guides alone. Alone was the key word. He'd bugged Mandy enough that she had taken to avoiding him by talking to Kuwabara and Yusuke, and insulting them both. He wished she wouldn't. Not that Kuwabara didn't deserve it-

Jean hadn't left Kurama's side all morning. She was so wrapped up in him that she completely ignored Hiei. It wasn't that Hiei didn't trust Kurama, it was just that on the whole, it was probably better if only the guides knew. Anne was a little better than Jean. She would at least acknowledge his presence. But she would simply ask him if he had slept well, or if he was ready to leave soon. She stood next to Hikaru and Touga, and Hiei couldn't risk asking to speak with her alone. Something told him not to tell Valerie about last night. She would never believe him.

Hiei groaned and put his face in his hands. Suddenly, from inside his head, a voice asked, <What's wrong with you?>

<They won't listen to me!> Hiei thought despairingly.

<Who won't listen to what?> the voice asked.

Suddenly Hiei looked up. Where was the voice coming from? He looked at Touga, who was studying him, blue eyes blank.

<Get the hell outta my head!!> Hiei thought fiercely. Touga casually turned away. <Great!> thought Hiei. <A mind reader. And just when I thought things couldn't get any worse.>

Hiei climbed on the back of Anne's spatula. He'd noticed that Touga was now following him like a puppy. He was even having Valerie fly next to Anne. Hiei gritted his teeth. He would talk to one of the guides alone, he would.

As the guides and their passengers flew up into the air above tree level, Hiei slipped, or seemed to slip. With a cry, he fell of the back of Anne's spatula.

"HIEI!!" he heard Mandy scream, as he plummeted towards the ground. For once, he didn't even try to land on his feet. He hit the ground with a thud and lay there, gasping, trying to recover the breath that had been knocked out of him.

"I'll get him!" Anne called, as she flew down to where he lay. She landed next to Hiei, who was still trying to get his breath back.

"Are you all right?" she asked.

"Anne," Hiei gasped, "can I talk to you for a moment?"

"Sure." Anne turned to Hikaru, who was in human form again. "Why don't you go up and tell the rest of the group that Hiei is all right. I'm sure that Mandy needs to know."

"How am I going to get back up there?" Hikaru asked doubtfully.

"You take my spatula, of course."

"Oh no." Hikaru eyed the spatula warily. The last time I went on that thing alone, it tried to kill me!"

"No it didn't," Anne said. "You just crashed it."

"That thing wants to kill me!" Hikaru said.

"Oh, stop it!" Anne said. "You're starting to sound like Calvin with his bike."

Hikaru grumbled, but finally Anne coaxed him onto her spatula, and he flew up to the rest of the group.

In as few words as possible, Hiei told Anne what had happened the night before, and that morning. Anne just nodded grimly. He finished his tale just in time; the rest of the group came down and landed next to him. While Kuwabara was saying that he didn't understand how someone who practically lived in trees and high places could fall of the back of a spatula, Anne flicked a signal to Jean and Mandy, and the three of them disappeared into the trees.

When they returned, Mandy laced into Hiei about being clumsy, while Anne and Jean teased her about being so worried. Then they climbed back onto their spatulas and other flying objects, and took off as though nothing had happened. Hiei rubbed his sore side where he had hit the ground, and sat silently on the back of the spatula. Mandy would take care of things now.

"Here we are! The Spring of Youth!" called Yusuke. "Hey, aren't there supposed to be a lot of people here?"

"OHOHOHOHOHO!"

"Carrot Ball!" THOIP!

"MANDY!!!"

"Oops, sorry Jean. You startled me."

Touga looked at Valerie. "Does this sort of thing happen often?"

Valerie shook her head. "Mandy usually isn't this jumpy."

"What were you laughing about anyway, Jean?" Mandy asked.

Jean looked confused. "I wasn't laughing," she said.

"WHAT?!"

"OHOHOHOHOHO!" the laugh came again.

Mandy whirled around, carrot bomb ready. "I knew it!" she muttered.

Bordem Hoggie stood at the edge of the clearing.

"Well, at least we know why there's no one else here," Jean said.

Bordem gave her a sickening smile. "Finally," he said, "Weird World guides delivered right to my door. This time I'll make sure I deal with you properly."

"You are so annoying! Don't you know when to shut up and quit?!" Jean said, exasperated.

Bordem shook his head at her. "Asking a question that like. And you're supposed to be smart." He clapped his hands twice. Instantly the clearing was surrounded by his minions.

"I think I'm going to enjoy this," Bordem grinned wickedly.

"Now what?!" Yusuke growled. He paced up and down the small cage.

Suddenly Bordem appeared outside the cage. "Come on, Touga," he said. Touga stood up and Bordem opened the cage door wide enough to let him out.

"What's going on?" Valerie asked, confused.

"Ha ha! Touga works for me! That's how I knew you'd be at the spring!" Bordem crowed.

Valerie's face went white. She turned to Touga. Her eyes were so full of pain that he couldn't look into them. "Is it true?" she asked. He looked at the ground. That was more than enough of an answer for her. Valerie stared at him, looking hurt. "Jean warned me," she said. "I didn't believe her. I stuck up for you, and trusted you, and all for nothing!!"

Touga shifted uncomfortably. Bordem said, "Well, he can't help it if you're a complete idiot."

In half a second Valerie's face went from being white with shock to being crimson with rage. "You-you.." she stammered, so furious she couldn't speak. When she did get her voice back, she turned to Touga and said coldly, "You are a lying, deceiving traitor, and I hate you!"

"Come on, Touga," Bordem called. "Leave that wench to her ranting."

Touga reluctantly turned and followed Bordem. Behind him, Yusuke retreated to a safe corner, while Valerie paced up and down, calling Touga names even she had not known she possessed in her vocabulary.

Touga sat at the edge of the clearing where the Spring of Youth had once been. During the battle between Bordem's henchmen and the Weird World guides and Yusuke's group, the spring had been buried in rubble. <At least they accomplished their mission,> he thought.

It bothered him that Valerie thought so badly of him. He shook his head; it shouldn't mater what she thought of him. She was a freak, like Bordem said. Still- Her face came back to him, and he remembered the pain in her voice as she said, "I stuck up for you, and trusted you-" She had been so nice, so sweet and friendly and cheerful. He thought of her shy smile and blush when he proposed that he ride with her on her mop. And now she hated him. She had told him so, and there had been no mistaking the cold hatred in her voice when she said it.

He tried to push Valerie out of his mind and found himself thinking of Hikaru instead. He smiled slightly; that cat demon had been so gullible. Gullible and friendly. Hikaru had done little but talk when they had first met; babbling on about how Touga was going to love his job and love working with the guides. He, like Valerie, had stuck up for Touga. Touga remembered hearing Anne try to tell Hikaru that he really worked for Bordem, and how Hikaru had denied it and walked off leaving Anne exasperated.

Then again, there were the guides themselves. He reflected that had they not been so suspicious of him, he could have been good friends with them. Funny how when he actually met people form the Weird World, they didn't seem evil like Bordem had said.

Again, Valerie's words echoed through his head.

"I hate you!"

Touga stood up. This was wrong. He walked off in search of Bordem.

"So," Yusuke whispered to Jean, "this is what happens when Valerie gets ticked off?"

Jean nodded. Valerie ignored them and continued to pace, muttering curses under her breath. Finally she shrieked, "Touga, you JERK!!!" and slammed both fists against the cage door. To everyone's surprise, it swung open. Bordem must not have closed it tightly after letting Touga out.

"Well, what are we waiting for?" asked Mandy. "Lets go!"

"Ah, Touga," said Bordem, "I'm glad to see you. Can you help me think of some slow and painful ways to kill someone?"

"Trying to think of ways to do away with the Weird World guides?"

"Exactly."

"I can't help you," Touga said. "In fact, I don't think I'll ever help you again."

"What do you mean?" Bordem demanded.

"You told me that all Weird World inhabitants are evil. I think you're wrong. They've been nicer to me than you have."

"What are you ranting about?"

Touga took a deep breath. "I'm not going to let you kill them," he said.

There was a flash, and Touga lay on the floor at Bordem's feet, struggling to rise.

"HOW DARE YOU??!!!" Bordem boomed. "You ungrateful FREAK!!!!"

Valerie, who had run ahead of the group, heard the noise, and came to see what was happening. Crouching behind a pillar, she listened to Bordem yelling at Touga.

"I knew I shouldn't have let you work for me! You were a weird freak and I thought I could reform you! I tried to save you from yourself, and now you turn on me!"

"I was perfectly content to be a weirdo until you started messing with my head!" Touga shouted.

There was another flash, and this time, Touga did not try to rise.

Bordem didn't seem to notice or care that the person he was yelling at couldn't hear him. "Not let me kill them, huh?! You think that you could stop me?!" He kicked the unconscious form at his feet. Touga rolled a few feet and lay still again.

A third flash came, but this time it was Bordem, not Touga, who was trying to get up. Valerie had thrown caution to the wind and had run to stand over Touga.

"If you dare to touch him again-!" she hissed.

Bordem simply stared at her for a moment. "How did you get out, woman?!" he bellowed. Then, not waiting for her answer, he said, "I'll bet he let you out! That ungrateful jerk! After all I tried to do for him! A little more brainwashing and he could have been normal, like me! But no, he had to stick up for you freaks!" He advanced on Valerie.

Valerie half turned as she heard a groan from behind her. Touga was slowly and painfully trying to stand up. She slipped an arm under him, and helped him to his feet. As he leaned against her for support, he whispered, "Valerie, I'm so sorry."

"Valerie? Valerie, where are you?" Jean called.

"Jean! Jean, I'm over here!" Valerie called back.

Suddenly, Valerie was surrounded by the other Weird World guides, as well as Hikaru, Yusuke, Hiei, Kuwabara, and Kurama. Bordem, sensing that he was in big trouble, ran off. Jean and Anne ran after him. Valerie was about to follow, when she heard, "Carrot Ball!" THOIP!

When she turned around, she wasn't very surprised to see Touga as a carrot. What scared her was the sight of the vego-matic. "Wait Mandy!!" she cried.

"Carrot Ball!" THOIP!

"Mandy, why did you do that?" Kuwabara asked.

"Oops, sorry Valerie. Didn't see you there," Mandy said.

Valerie didn't seem to mind that she had just undergone a slight change of form. "Don't hurt him, Mandy; he's on our side," she said. "He and Bordem got in a fight about that."

Mandy eyed Touga the carrot, not quite satisfied. "Are you sure?" she asked.

"Positive," said Valerie, as Anne and Jean returned breathless.

"Darn it! He got away!" Jean growled.

"Oh, well, you can't have everything in life," Anne said.

Jean smiled at Touga. "I take it the fact that you are still in one piece means that you have come back to our side." Touga nodded.

"Mission #2 accomplished," said Hikaru.

Anne turned a bewildered countenance on him. "Mission #2?" she asked.

"Uh huh. Fred saw on the background checks that Touga used to be a weirdo until Bordem got a hold of him. So she and I decided that if we gave Touga a chance, we might be able to undo the damage Bordem had done."

Valerie, Anne, and Touga all looked stunned. "You knew?!" They all gasped.

"Oh, sure."

"And," Anne was not quite speechless, "Fred knew too? And she still sent us on this assignment?!"

Hikaru nodded. "I don't think she would have done that if she hadn't been sure that Touga would come round."

"What was she thinking?!" Valerie cried. "She could have gotten Touga killed!"

But Touga looked hurt. "So the only reason you were nice to me was because Fred told you to be?"

"No!" Hikaru said quickly. "I did volunteer to be your supervisor. I'm just glad it paid off."

Once again, Jean found herself bidding a fond farewell to Kurama as he, Hiei, Yusuke, and Kuwabara left the Weird World. Fred, meanwhile, was giving Valerie and Touga their Weird World I.D.'s.

"Oh, man," said Valerie, staring at her photo, "I look like a deer caught in the headlights. Why can't I ever take good pictures?"

Touga laughed and told her she looked fine.

"Hey, Touga," Jean called, "what ever happened to that comic book I lent you?"

Touga looked confused. "Comic book?" he said.

"WHAT?! You forgot it!?!" Jean looked ready to murder someone.

"Just kidding." Touga produced the comic book with a slight of hand. Jean glared at him and reached for it, but Touga quickly whisked it out of her reach.

"Hey!" Jean cried. "Give it back!" She lunged for the comic book, but Touga simply laughed and stepped back. Jean had had enough. She tackled him. They rolled and wrestled on the floor amid thumping and cursing noises as they socked each other and ran into Fred's desk.

Fred ignored the disturbance. "Congratulations, Valerie," she said, "and welcome to the Weird World. You passed your test."

Insert Disclaimer: Yu*Yu*Hakusho and all its characters belong to Yoshihiro Togashi. Hikaru belongs to Anne, and Touga belongs to Valerie.

(Jean: Hey, wait a minute! I came up with the character design.

Valerie: Minor details, Jean.

Touga: Do I have any say in this?

Jean and Valerie: NO!)

Bordem Hoggie belongs- well, we won't even go there. Please don't sue me, I spent all my money at Christmas.