Forgive my terrible work, I had this idea at 1a.m. this morning and wrote it then on paper because I had only just shut down the computer so at school I typed it up then today and well, here we are.

For now it's a one-shot but there's leaveway in the end to continue it and I kinda like the idea of making it longer so please let me know what you think. Doumo arigatou.XD


"What's going on Shuuichi?" she tried to ask but no one was around anymore. Suddenly alone, she blinked her light, creamy brown eyes a couple times before scrambling to her feet to chase after the two retreating energies, unsure of why she does so, other than to just not be alone anymore. One of the two aura does feel both familiar and protective. Her thoughts trail as she runs. "Too weird…Must be a dream…"

She arrives at a small forest clearing where both energy signals stopped moving as they faded just in to see the classmate she was deeply crushing on return the sword he held back into a simple leaf. He had also said something as she arrived but she missed the words that weren't directed at her.

Across the clearing was the black blur Shuuichi had saved her from not two minutes before. Now that he was still he looked like an 11 year old with spiky black hair and red contacts. She was in time to catch his last words. "Well, this is me looking stupid…"

Shuuichi seemed to notice something she missed however and sure enough, when she looked again after he'd said, "blood…?!" she was able to notice the drops of red on the ground. It was also on the guy in black, and seemed to come from a large gash semi-visible though the rips in his tunic. Even as she noticed though he fell to the ground and Shuuichi stepped towards him.

Something of an electric shock went off in her head at that same moment and she ran over to meet her classmate.

A burst of energy shot from the forest straight at where the stranger had been before he fainted, Shuuichi becoming the new target now. The girl stopped between him and the other, and thus the attack too.

It hit her as she closed her mouth on words she hadn't realized she'd spoken. "Watch out Shuuichi!"

She fainted immediately, the red head only just having time to catch her as she fell. Her heart rate was erratic and her breathing slowing. The blast had been intended to cripple a demon.

"Maya," he muttered to her stilling form. "I should have told you sooner. Ai shiteru……"


If you couldn't tell it's a Maya-centric story pretty much and I've never liked her much but there's room to continue and the idea haunts me...

Kitajima Maya is only mentioned in the extra chapter of Volume 7 of the manga. She and Kurama were classmates in Sariyashiki Jr High(guessing from uniforms) and they both cared for each other. It picks up at the scene right after she tells him but he won't tell her if he even does have feelings. Hiei attacked then and the two guys run off fighting, Kurama leading Hiei away to protect Maya. In the real version this would have been the point she got captured by the demon working for eight-hands, another demon with, as his name implies, eight arms...

Read and review please.