As I said, I don't really have a singular favorite, but the one that sticks out most in my mind is "Tomodachi", her YYH/Fushigi Yuugi crossover. (Normally, I'm not a fan of crossovers. But YYH and FY just seem to FIT together. And it doesn't hurt that they were both Studio Pierrot anime series.) It's fairly long and is just... just... *good*. For lots of reasons. You should read it. And all of her other fics as well.


- Amparo Bertram [ home page ] - There are always two YYH/FY crossovers that stick out in my mind when I think of YYH fic. White Cat's "Tomodachi" and Amparo Betram's "The Fox and the Phoenix". I love them both. Both of them are two of the best-written fics around, to say nothing of the best crossovers around. I read this story before I knew much of anything about FY, and I didn't find it very hard at all to follow along, so if you're not a FY fan, you won't have trouble with it, I don't think. The Fox and the Phoenix universe is rather long, but that's a *good* thing, because the writing is wonderful, and you'll get sucked into it, reading it as fast as you can. I recommend any of the stories on this site, but one of my other favorites was "Sweet Young Boys". I wouldn't have thought a YYH/CCS crossover possible (at least not done well), but I *liked* that one. A lot.


- Katchan [ rec.arts.anime.creative ftp archive ] - (Quick note: Obviously not all the fics in that directory are Katchan's, but I think all of her fics should be in there. Since she's without a fic website as of this writing, it's the only place I know of that has her fics.) Ahh, Katchan, another of my favorite YYH writers. "The Seduction of Minamino Shuuichi" is one of my favorite YYH fics EVER. (Not all the fics are lemon, but a lot of them are, so be careful if you're not old enough for that kind of thing or don't like it.) Her dialogue and internal monologue/thoughts are spot on for the characters, giving them that elegant Japanese *feel* that so many anime writers can't do. (Not that it's their fault, it's not easy to understand another entire CULTURE just to write fanfic.) IIRC, they're all about Hiei/Kurama, so avoid if you're on burnout or don't like them. (Obviously. ^_^;; ) Highly recommended, some of my very, very favorite YYH fics.


- Weiss Kreuz/Yuu Yuu Hakusho - Bishounen Corner [ Fan Site/Fan Art ] - I wasn't originally going to rec this site because while I enjoyed a few of the WK fan arts, most of it wasn't to my particular tastes. (I didn't think it was bad or anything, just not the pairings/content I look for when surfing for WK fan art.) Buuuuuut then I stopped by the Yuu Yuu Hakusho fan art gallery and, holy fuck, Red Fox's art is stunning. Just... wow. *drools* Heed the warnings, some of them are very graphic HieixKurama illustrations, but if you're a hentai like me that's just all the more incentive. ^_~

Okay, in the Weiss Kreuz section there are a couple of images by Tulip that I wanted to specifically mention--this one of Brad with a lollipop is niiiiice and in this one he is hot. Wow. Oh, and this one of Ken is coooooool.

So. Anyway. Poke around the whole site, lots of cool stuff. Yaoi, obviously. ^_^ (Mostly Yohji/Aya and Hiei/Kurama with a sprinkling of Aya/Omi, Crawford/Schuldich, Schuldich/Yohji, and a few other pairings.)


- X/Tokyo Babylon/Yuu Yuu Hakusho - [ Japanese Fan Art Site ] - I suspect that if I could have a fan art illustration's baby, I would bear this image children. I really wanted to link to the image of the Sumeragi twins and the Seishirou/Subaru image, but they weren't put on an HTML page, and I don't want to link directly to an image. So just go click your way through this gallery and you'll see the ones I mean. *tries not to drool on herself* The X ones are my favorites, but those Yuu Yuu Hakusho ones are stunning. Fuck, I want to be a fan artist now. Well, a talented one. (One Seishirou/Subaru, and a couple Hiei/Kurama images.)


- Eien no Hakusho - by Morgan D - Something I've noticed about a lot of the longer YYH stories I've read, they all start to fall into the same sort of characterizations. I'm not sure how to explain it, I can't really find the words, but it's not something I'm completely fond of. I think it's the angst in Hiei's background. The oh, poor Hiei, what a horrible life he must have lived, how much the poor dear has been scarred by all of that! vibe.

To be fair to this story, that's not really how it's played out, it's more Kurama's view of Hiei than Hiei himself. And it's not that I disagree, because Morgan D has woven a very good overall storyline here, and I can't fault her on characterization anywhere.

Despite my reservations, I do really like this fic and think it's one of the best out there. She's a good writer, she's got that readable story thing down perfectly, the story just flows beautifully, and the humor is effing hysterical. She's really captured the sense of the YYH anime rather than the fandom portrayal of the series. Yuusuke and Kuwabara don't just chew the scenery, even though this is a Hiei/Kurama-centric story, they're solid presences. At least in the fics I read. And nothing is really glossed over too much (though, it can be hard to tell as some parts aren't written yet), the story takes the time it needs to to tell its tale. Really, a very good fic series. (HieixKurama, YuusukexKeiko, and KuwabaraxYukina.)


- Yuu Yuu Hakusho - Violation of the Sixth Commandment by varon - Let me get two things out of the way. One, the ending was rather... abrupt. I'm sure the author had it in mind the whole way through the fic and it did kind of feel like the fic was heading in that sort of direction, but it still felt like it came out of nowhere. A "Huh? Wha...? Where'd that come from?" sort of ending. And I'm not entirely sure why they couldn't just work around it. Second, honestly, I could have done without the sex scenes. Normally, I would really, really like a YuusukexKeiko sex scene, but this one just didn't hit me right. A lot of that was the terms... "pussy" is not something I expect from a non-male-jack-off fic. >_<

Okay, criticisms aside, I really, really liked this fic. Varon has a wonderful style that fits the characters well, and I thought she did the characters justice. Keiko and Yuusuke almost sparkled, they were so much fun to watch and I felt the chemistry of the characters come through. They were also both interesting, intelligent, three-dimensional and wonderful characters; no favorites were played. You saw why these two were in love. And little things, like the scene out under the stars were just absolutely wonderful. I was craving YuusukexKeiko and this gave it to me rather nicely. (YuusukexKeiko and a little bit of KuwabaraxYukina.)


- Yuu Yuu Hakusho/Hunter x Hunter/Weiss Kreuz - [ Japanese Fan Art Site ] - Mmmm, nice YYH art. +_+ Kurama especially looks beautiful and the HieixKurama illustrations are hot. I absolutely adore this site's Hiei as well... he looks like he can be such a mean, nasty little bastard. *hearts* .........and I'll just ignore Kurama in the Bridesmaid's Dress from Hell illustration. -_- And, eee! If it's possible, the HxH art is even cuter~! And pardon me while I gush over the WK art... so very, very pretty. There're a couple of lovely Omi and Yohji (together and seperate) that I just adored. *hearts* Lots of gorgeous art~! (Some yaoi/shounen ai.)


- Yuu Yuu Hakusho/Hikaru no Go/Cardcaptor Sakura - Frost [ Japanese Fan Art Site ] - I'm really not crazy about the navigation and the small size of the fanart makes it not as fun a site as it could have been, but I still have to rec it, because the art is really good. A handful of the images even border on looking almost official, and there's a fair amount of stuff to go through. ^_^v (A little bit Hiei/Kurama and Sakura/Syaoran.)


- Yuu Yuu Hakusho - Love Antique [ Japanese Fan Art Site ] - I'm not crazy about all of the art on this site, but it seems like every other picture was really pretty, and there were some really gorgeous ones on the site. And, hey. Shounen ai! ^_^v (There's a crossover illustration in the gallery that cracks me up, too. The illustration of Hiei licking blood off a knife is gorgeous as well. +_+) The gallery is a bit hard to find, but it's worth it for the adorable chibis and seiyuu fanart~! (Some Hiei/Kurama.)


- Yuu Yuu Hakusho/Hunter x Hunter/Hikaru no Go - [ Japanese Fan Art Site ] - There is an illustration of Hisoka (from HxH) in there that just cracks me up. I'm not entirely sure why, but something about it is utterly surreal and just makes me laugh. That aside, it takes a little bit to get used to the tone of the colors (it's very... reddish-pink....), but I came to really like it. I don't see a lot of illustrations that look like they were done using traditional paints, much less to see them done so well and so many. I had a lot of fun going through this site and I honestly couldn't say which series I liked the best. Usually there's one series that sticks out above all the others for me, but I enjoyed each section pretty much equally. (No real warnings.)


- Gundam Wing/Yuu Yuu Hakusho - The Death Arc by White Cat, Shirin, Kuwabara no Miko, and Talya Firedancer - Oooh, this rec is going to suck, I can tell that even before I sit down to write it. (Part of the problem being that it's been years since I originally read this series.) But... I wanted to write a rec for this series because it was one of the first that got me into Gundam Wing, as I was obsessed with Yuu Yuu Hakusho at the time and read it just for that, even if the GW characters are the main-main focus of the series. The authors involved were really and truly wonderful writers and I just... I fell so very hard for this story, just devoured this story, because... meh, I told you this rec was going to suck. =_=

When I was first getting into Gundam Wing, there weren't a lot of longer stories out there, because it was still a very young series and we didn't have the luxury of digisubs that we have now. So a story like this was something I could actually sink my teeth into--and not only that it was good. The plot was good, the characterizations were good, and Heero and Duo sparkled and I adored them. The crossover was actually done really, really, really well and in a believable way (as several of the YYH characters are going to be long-lived/immortal). One of the things I remember most was the way I was just entranced with Heero's reaction to his own history being uncovered through their adventures. The way his relationship with Duo blossomed and the way Botan was just... sparkling and I adored her so much. So... in summary, this is one of those stories that I will always be fond of because it was one of the first I read and one of the ones that helped to make me fall in love with both sets of characters. (Some Botan+Duo, HeeroxDuo, probably some hints of Trowa+Quatre.)


- Hunter x Hunter/Yuu Yuu Hakusho - Togashi Room [ Japanese Fanart Site ] - I admit that not all of the illustrations on this site were to my taste... but there were enough here (and YYH and HxH fanart are rare enough) that I thought I'd rec the site anyways. The artist is a little shakey a lot of the time, but occasionally the art really tightens up and it's quite pretty art--there's this one of Kurapika that's just lovely, looking like it was done with all CG, yet still so smooth. Plus, the YYH fanart was very fun--there's one of Hiei in action that was just effing COOL and there was a really nice one of Kurama in the gallery as well. So... fun site, I liked it. ^_^v (No real warnings/pairings.)


- Yuu Yuu Hakusho/Cardcaptor Sakura - LOVEANTIQUE [ Japanese Fanart Site ] - I can't help feeling like I've seen this site before, but I can't find it on any of my pages, so if I rec it twice... well, oops? Anyway, this is one of the best YYH sites I've ever come across, as the artist puts all these beautifully shaded colors into her illustrations, so that the colors look so beautifully lush and detailed. But it's also that her lines/inkings look terrific and that she does a lot of details and just... everything looks right and in proportion and, god, does she ever do a gorgeous Yue. One of the first CCS illustrations on the site is this beautifully inked and detailed illustration of him, the hair these beautiful shades of white and purple and the eyes! Detailed and looking damn near straight out of a CLAMP manga. And when she tackles Kurama's hair.... *___* Plus! Plus! Kurama and Hiei at the onsen as chibis! There is NO WAY that's not one of the bestest YYH fanarts ever. XD Oh, oh, and Kurama in that white sleeveless shirt, black gloves outfit surrounded by his vine? SO. PRETTY. ..... *coughs* Ahem. I mean, I adore this site, it's got some of the best art I've seen for both series on it, a ton of illustrations I would like to individually shove at people if I could, and I'm nearly reduced to incoherency by some of those Hiei/Kurama illustrations. (No real CCS pairings, maybe a little Hiei/Kurama.)


- Yuu Yuu Hakusho/Hunter x Hunter - [ Japanese Fanart Site ] - I think I fell in love with this site pretty much from the current top illustration of Hiei, I didn't even need to hit the gallery to know that I was going to be clicking like mad through this gallery. But getting there certainly helped because, man, so much pretty to this site. The artist puts all this tremendous detail into her illustrations, there are all these fine lines and gorgeous colors (I keep associating plums and dark purples with the site, and that just makes me go *__*) and they look almost like paintings. Plus, god, her Hiei is hot and her Kurama is just beautiful and her Youko Kurama is stunningly gorgeous and they go so very well together. You don't see a lot of YYH fanart these days, much less one that's just top notch or has images like Hiei in a loose kimono with the black dragon swirling around him and, god, my hormones are in a nice little tizzy now. I wasn't as hyped about the HxH fanart, but it's still a really solid, cute site with the occasional image that really made me smile. The artist has Bisuke fanart! You totally cannot go wrong with Bisuke fanart. ♥ (Hiei/Kurama, Killua/Gon.)


- Yuu Yuu Hakusho - Absolution by Blossomwitch - I have a thing for stories about Hiei and Yukina, where she finally finds out who her brother is and talks to him about it and this story... I admit, it felt a little short (it seems strange to me that, these days, a ten thousand word story would seem short of all things), but it wasn't unsatisfying for it. It was actually very gratifying to read a story that had such clean, crisp writing, that had such sharp characterization and dialogue, and actually did really well with working the pairings into the story. I positively adored the author's take on Yukina, she felt so right to me somehow and her relationship with Kuwabara (who was also absolutely right in the story) was delightful and perfect. The Hiei/Kurama relationship was so well done, too, the way I felt for Hiei, as he struggled to accept that Yukina accepted him, forgave him for the horrible things he'd done, that Kurama would love him, without it being over the top or too pandering about it. The revelation of the story (which is what I was reading for most of all) was really just... satisfying, the resolution of everything feeling very right. It's one of those stories that makes me itch less for fic, you know? (Some Hiei/Kurama, but it's not the entire point of the story.)


- Yuu Yuu Hakusho - Jail Break by nightwalker3 - I'd been skimming around the YYH section, trying to find something that caught my eye, and I'm not even sure how I got to this one anymore. But I am so glad I read it because it's just utterly delightful and perfect, it has Yuusuke and Kuwabara being dumb, dumb deliquent friends, it has Yuusuke being a cocky, laughing smartass, it has actually, genuinely funny humor, and even if the girls aren't actually in it, they're kick-ass, too. I can't count how many lines genuinely made me laugh in this fic, much less how many times I beamed at how much it felt like the crazy, crazy antics Togashi's characters must get up to in between fights. A+++++ omg. (No warnings/pairings.)


- Yuu Yuu Hakusho - The Bounty Hunter by nightwalker3 - Okay, I officially caved on this fic as well when I got to this part, after Yuusuke's phone rang while he was watching a movie with Keiko: "Yeah, what?" he asked. He made a point of sounding put-out even if it was some stupid Sandra Bullock movie. Subtitled. God. And the whole plot about seeing the future was, in Yuusuke's opinion, boring as dirt. He had friends who did that shit all the time and he didn't see them getting all worked up about it. And after that it spirals off into a much darker fic, something I'm not sure I would have clicked on if I'd know ahead of time what was going to happen in the fic (I apparently skipped right over the warnings orz), but as soon as I was reading the fic, I couldn't put it down. It's really well-written and, as ;__;-inducing as it was, I'm glad I read it. It's really beautifully in character, down to all the little details. (No warnings/pairings.)


- Yuu Yuu Hakusho - Downtime by nightwalker3 - Part of me wants to tear through every fic the author's written, part of me wants to ration them out because I know I'll never find more YYH fic like this, and part of me is all ;__;-face because the author is spoiling me. It's just. The take on Yuusuke and Kuwabara's friendship is so damn perfect that I find myself falling in love with the series all over again, they are just incredibly spot on teenage boys with ridiculous amounts of power in their bodies... who play dumb Playstation games and call each other names. And act like such retarded teenage boys and, oh, god, by the end, I was crying with laughter and love for these characters. Beautiful. (....some pairings implied, but I'm not going to say or count them.)


- Yuu Yuu Hakusho - untitled by Nightwalker - So far, I have yet to tire of Yuusuke and Kuwabara's friendship, especially when they are such teenage boys about everything, even if they are very powerful people. And this is a really hilarious little fic about Kuwabara and Hiei having been trapped in a candy store for far too many hours together and it goes about as you'd expect it. I love that the characterization just sparkles, I love that the friendships between all of them are just spot-on and so much of what made me love the series in the first place. (No warnings/pairings.)


- Yuu Yuu Hakusho - untitled by Nightwalker - asdl;fkjaslkfaslkj Atsuko and Yukina in a car chase and, oh, my god, I am kind of in love with the YYH fandom right now. Like, I want to drag out all the manga I've been letting pile up and tear through it (because I ♥ Togashi's manga and I've never read the YYH manga properly) and flail over every single character, because it's fic like this that reminds me that I love the whole entire cast. And Atsuko and Yukina together here are fantastic, they make such an awesome team that I can hardly stand to not keyboard mash all over this recommendation. a;sdlfkajsldalskjd <-- *fails* (No warnings/pairings.)


- Yuu Yuu Hakusho - Yuugou Hakusho by Mistress 259 - I picked up the link to this fic from Aishuu's rec and I don't think I've had a 16,000+ word story fly by me so quickly in a very long time. The writing is clean and smooth, it just sails right along and I hardly recognized I was reading words instead of having a story told to me, it's professional-level quality, and incredibly solid (and good) style to read a fic like this in. This is a story about the demon Kurama fleeing to the human world and the long years he had to wait while his human body grew up and it's beautifully done. Everything the author puts forth in the fic meshes with canon so well that I could easily take this for canon itself, it fits together and the characterization is fantastic and it's brilliantly paced. Each scene from Kurama's childhood, the quiet boy who was so unusual and so smart, the teenager he grew up to be because he couldn't quite leave his human mother behind, it all works. This is one of those stories that reminds me of just how much I like Kurama. A-also, the stuff with Hiei totally didn't hurt my feelings, especially since it could have been entirely gen (I'm not sure if the author was implying it or not, which I loved) and just-- yes. This is what YYH fic should be. ♥ (No warnings/pairings.)


- Yuu Yuu Hakusho - Yuujyou Hakusho by Mistress 259 - This fic is a follow-up to Yuugou Hakusho and, as the author's notes say, it could probably stand on its own, but it does work better if you've read that one first. This is an interesting look at Kurama's continued attempts to convince his mother of his normal human life, going so far as to have Yuusuke over for dinner, as he's the first friend that Shiori has seen her son meet. It's interesting because you can really tell how long it's been since Kurama has had someone to talk to about demon-related events, about himself and who he used to be, without that someone judging him or, you know, being like talking to a brick wall. It's interesting to see the parallels the author draws between Kurama and Yuusuke, you can see their easy friendship starting to build right from the beginning, which is nice to see. (No warnings/pairings.)


- Yuu Yuu Hakusho - A Thousand Years of Solitudes by Nightwalker - The older I get as a YYH fan (actually, YYH was my first series, from way back before there were manga scanslations or any such thing as digital/on-line subbing, I'm so ooooold omg), the more I like stories like this, that are about the friendships between the characters and what they came to mean to each other as they settled into this balance between the human world and the demon world. Yuusuke and Kurama's friendship is spot-on here, Kurama is insightful and Yuusuke is loud, brash, and headstrong, but there's more underneath that. There's a real person in there, with real worries, especially since he's not really human anymore. It's a little bittersweet, especially considering the setting, but it's also hopeful and it does a fantastic job of the story it wanted to tell. (There's some character death here.)